This novel has entertained and delighted readers for over 200 years!Originally published in 1815, in Emma, Jane Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Regency England and creates a creates a lively comedy of manners while examining issues of marriage, gender, age, and social status.Emma Woodhouse has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her lovely friend and former governess, to Mr. Weston. Having introduced them, Emma takes credit for their marriage and decides that she likes matchmaking. After she returns home to Hartfield with her father, Emma forges ahead with her new interest against the advice of her sister's brother-in-law, Mr. Knightley, and tries to match her new friend, Harriet Smith, to Mr. Elton, the local vicar. Unfortunately, Emma is spoiled, headstrong, and a bit self-satisfied! A well-meaning, but nosy young woman, she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities. She is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives, and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray.When social disaster strikes, Emma must right her wrongs, help her friends recover, and perhaps even find love for herself!