We all know that most of you will put Pride & Prejudice as your favorite,
but if you couldn't choose Pride & Prejudice as your first whats your next 2 favorites. & please but why their your favorite.
(and if Pride & Prejudice is not you first favorite then what is your fist 2 favorites
Persuasion is my favorite. I love the second chance at love. Captain Wentworth slowly realizes that he never stopped loving Anne. Then the note that he writes to her just makes my heart pound every time I read it.
Pride and Prejudice is a close second. It is just so witty. I love it.
Then the rest for me are:
Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
My favorite Jane Austen book is probably Persuasion. I just love how the book is all about second chances and what true love can withstand. And I think that Captain Wentworth is definitely the ideal man.
shareActually, I didn't like Pride and Prejudice as much as Northanger Abbey. I'm only partway through Emma but so far I like that better than P&P as well. Northanger Abbey is just so funny and easy to read, Catherine is sweet and easy to relate to, and I LOVE Henry Tilney... he's just so PERFECT! :)
shareAfter P+P it's Northanger Abbey then Sense and Sensibility. But I have to say I prefer Wuthering Heights over anything Austen wrote.
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Is Wuthering Height really that good? I've bought the book, but yet to read it & also Jane Eyre.
Perhaps I am about to speak heresy but I did not like Wuthering Heights all that much. I find little or nothing likable or redeeming about any of the characters. They are all puppets on Heathcliff's strings, with little or no backbone of their own. It is a sad situation to be in.
Jane Eyre, on the other hand, has characters with whom I could make a connection. I think if you go from Austen to Bronte, you see how society is slowly changing but money is still important.
My Favorite Austen novels in order
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Lady Susan
Emma
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
I LOVE Jane Eyre, definitely worth a read! I actually only read it because a mystery copy was in my apartment and I just fell in love with it.
Another great one is North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell (the mini series is amazing)
Persuasion. I love Austen's minor characters, especially her unlikable ones, and Persuasion has more than its share of those. Sir Walter's the most obvious, but Mary Musgrove with her minor persecution complex is hilarious.
Second place goes to Sense & Sensibility. I think the characters are even better developed than in P&P.
Charmed, charmed, charmed!
Persuasion.
All of Austen's themes and ideas are given full expression, yet it's a surprisingly compact book that says all in a wonderfully polished and succinct way (even more so than her others), as if she had perfectly distilled her art for one last, posthumous tour-de-force. Each character, big and small, is a memorable portrait.
The 1995 film was memorable too. I particularly remember the elegantly cruel Sir Walter Elliot of Corin Redgrave and ugly-step-sister Phœbe Nicholls as Elizabeth Elliott crying out, when Anne poo-poos having to cow-tow to Lady Russell : "SHE IS A VICOUNTESS!!"
If we are to be brothers, let us be brothers for life, die together.
After Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion is my favorite Jane Austen novel. I love the romance of the story - it's much more romantic than any of the others - though I did find Anne to be a bit of a weak character.
After Persuasion would either be Sense & Sensibility or Mansfield Park. I liked both of those, though I only read them once last year and found them to drag in some places - particularly Mansfield Park.
I did like Northanger Abbey - I adored Henry Tilney - but I did NOT like Emma at all. Indeed, to put it in Regency English, "I quite detested it!" I found Emma completely irritable and unlikeable, and the story boring and dragging. I did like Mr. Knightley, but that was about it.
P & P all the way, next is sense and sensibility i think
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My favourite book is Mansfield Park, i now how fanny is irritating and everything, but all the other characters are so different, and there's a lot of action going around (in terms of Jane Austen of course).
My second is either Northanger Abbey or Pride and Prejudice.
And third is Sense & Sensibility with Persuasion.
Emma is my least, read it once and though it was enjoyable but nothing else.
My favorite is, of course, P &P, there is a reason why that book is so beloved for generations. Second is Persuasion, which deals with the darkest topics that Jane Austen would dare. Emma is third, just because Emma's character is so believable, even today.
I found Northanger Abbey boring, except for Henry's quips. The whole ending after she is kicked out of the house seemed contrived.
To the poster who hated Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, I quite agree! I read about half of it and hated Catherine and Heathcliff so much that I didn't care what happened to them. My biggest fear was that they would breed and create an even worse monster than themselves individually.
But Jane Eyre, considered by intellectuals to be inferior to Wuthering Heights, I found delightful and have read it numerous times, starting in High School. Mr. Rochester is such a complex character, and I fall in love with him every time.
In this world you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.For years I was smart.I recommend pleasant.