I had to vote P&P because I loathed Emma - the character. I, came VERY close to dropping the book and had to force myself to finish it because she was so awful, but I do remember saluting Ms Austen for succeeding in her apparently stated aim to create an unlikeable protagonist. That would suggest that Emma the book might be the greater achievement of writing, it definitely generated a much stronger reaction than the inoffensively bland P&P.
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