Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The Inquisitive Young Matchmaker


Enter Miss Emma Woodhouse!

...and Mr. Knightly, of course!

Emma is a charming young woman who believes herself perfectly capable of creating happy marriages for other people--even when her only proof of such a gift is a single lucky guess!

Trouble ensues as Emma attempts to re-match already happy people--and finds herself the object of more than one young man's affections in the process.

Emma soon realizes that she should not meddle with other people's happiness--because they are the ones who are best equipped to find their own happiness.


From Chapter 22 of Emma:

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

2 comments:

Mary said...

meh, Dickens is better...

Eric said...

(Tolkien + Lewis) > (Dickens + Austen)

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