Jane Austen - Emma

Mr Knightley shook his head. Her father replied in an affectionate tone: "Oh, my dear Emma! If only you were not so skilled at making marriage plans. Please, do not do that anymore." "I promise I won't pursue it for my own sake, Papa, but I really must think about others. It's the most fun I know!

"I shall have a heroine whom no one but me will like very much," Jane Austen wrote about her novel Emma, which many consider to be her finest. It is at once a love story, a comedy about who will end up with whom, and a tale full of puzzles. Upper-class Emma tries to pair her friend with the village's young vicar, who in turn becomes interested in Emma, but it is Emma's much older neighbor and mentor, Mr Knightley, who awakens her love. The reader realizes this long before Emma herself does, yet the suspense is kept alive until the end. Will they end up together? And what will Emma's spoiled and domineering father do if she marries