[latina4dubya]

but the one I could never get through was Jane Austen's "Emma"

why???? i loved Emma! :)

[jocon307]

“why????”

I do not know why I can’t get through Emma! My friend even told me, just get through Chapter 3 and you’ll be OK, and I did but I still but it down!

I’ll have to try it again.

I just read “Middlemarch” by George Elliot and I liked that a good deal.

[AnAmericanMother]

I don't like "Emma" either - so embarrassed for the heroine it makes me blush.

"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?)

The Janeites

And who, pray, has actually READ "The Light That Failed" or "The Naulakha"?