"Persuasion" for me - "There was one called Persuasion, first; an’ the rest in a bunch, except another about some Abbey or other—last by three lengths." - one of Kipling's characters (who else could write a short story about a Masonic lodge in London during WWI and a shell-shocked soldier telling a story about a front-line Jane Austen appreciation society?)
And who, pray, has actually READ "The Light That Failed" or "The Naulakha"?
i like Emma... she matures in grace... she does not stay the same... Northhanger Abby... i read that too... Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park... i enjoyed all of them... but Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility are my favorites... then Emma... love that Emma!