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Originally Posted by issybird
Emma is my favorite of the six Austen novels. This is my ranking:
- Emma
- Pride and Prejudice
- Persuasion
- Mansfield Park
- Sense and Sensibility
- Northanger Abbey
Pride and Prejudice is weaker than some of the other novels, but it's just so darn funny. Mansfield Park is terrific, but falls apart at the end (my relative ranking of Mansfield Park and Persuasion is my hardest call). And does anyone not put Northanger Abbey dead last?
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My ranking is thus:
- Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility (TIE)
- Persuasion
- Mansfield Park
- Emma
- Northanger Abbey
I have a particular attachment to tie in the first place because they were the first I've read and the ones I've gone back to. I read Sense and Sensibility for the first time in high school when a friend was dying, and I associate it with getting through hard times. Pride and Prejudice has a similar attachment.
Emma falls down my list because I don't like any of the female characters, which are Austen's forte.