Emma

Arrogant, self-willed and egotistical, Emma Woodhouse is Jane Austen’s most unusual heroine.

Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are both shocking and comic. She is “handsome, clever, and rich,” and has “a disposition to think too well of herself.” When she decides to introduce the humble Harriet Smith to the delights of genteel society and to find her a suitable husband, she precipitates herself and her immediate circle into a web of misunderstanding and intrigue from which nobody emerges unchanged.