Emma

Headstrong, confident, young, and very beautiful, Emma Woodhouse is one of the great female characters in world literature. Seemingly only concerned with the romance of others, she decides to inject a little more zest into her friends' love lives. But her efforts fail and lead to the strangest of entanglements. It is only in the end that things take a turn for the better. Jane Austen's last novel, published in 1817, one year before her death, still captivates us with its brilliant language, its incisiveness, and the wonderful wit of its dialogues.