Jane Austen's Emma
I finally read Emma! (See my history of trying to read Emma here.) I still struggled a bit, even though several friends advised me to approach it like a mystery, and even though the recent movie allowed me to appreciate characters like Mr Woodhouse and Miss Bates much more. Parts of this are very funny, parts are tiresome, parts are weird and racist, and parts are very frustrating (Frank Churchill is an ass! And his letters are too long). Soooo. Not my favorite Austen by a long shot, but at last I have completed it, 25 years after my first attempt. (I have a lot of thoughts about how Clueless improved upon the source material, lol.)
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