A review by juliaem
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen, Volume II : Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion by Jane Austen

4.0

The second volume is only 4 out of 5 stars because it doesn't have P&P in it. Also, Emma is Austen's protagonist who I most frequently want to smack sense/humility into while reading (Fanny Price of Mansfield Park would be my smacking target for sense/gumption). I'd never read either Northanger Abbey or Persuasion before, but loved both. Northanger Abbey is Austen at her sassy and socially astute best; I would have loved to take a college course on this novel alone to fully understand Austen's commentary on the state of the novel at that time she was writing. And then Persuasion...no character could have usurped Elizabeth Bennet's place as my very fave, but Anne Elliot is how I would hope Elizabeth would be 10 years and some emotional maturity down the road.