Emma

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Arrogant, self-willed, and egotistical, Emma is Jane Austen's most unusual heroine. Her interfering ways and inveterate matchmaking are at once 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 no one emerges unchanged.

Public Domain (P)1996 NAXOS AudioBooks Ltd.

Disappointed

I accidentally acquired the abridged version and realized the mistake too late. The story therefore seemed thin and too short. I did not care for the musical interludes/interruptions and found it annoying when they coincided with the narration.

The abridged version loses so much

You absolutely have to listen to the unabridged version of Emma to get the real feel of what is going on. So much is clipped out of this 3 hour abridged version that if I had not already had read the book I would not have really understood what was going on. Emma appears very one-dimensional in this shortened version. Juliet Stevenson does a great job with the narration though.