So happy to see someone else appreciates Mansfield Park! Here is my personal ranking: 1. Mansfield Park 2. Sense and Sensibility 3. Emma 4. Pride and Prejudice 5. Persuasion 6. Northanger Abbey But I love all six novels!
So interesting! What a great topic. So I have not read Mansfield Park and now you have me curious. Buy my number 1 is for sure P&P. I cannot stand Emma so move that back and I would bump up Persuassion. It is simple, but I think its just a delightful little read.
Haha! Emma as a character I cannot stand either. So self-centred. I liked Persuasion. The scene especially where Wentworth write Anne that letter was so tense. Well, tense in Austen terms. Lol!
I've read most of the Jane Austen novels twice. Have read Pride and Prejudice three times. It is the only book I have ever read thrice. Pride and Prejudice is the only one I liked. Perhaps reading the others was tinged with disappointment with how they failed to live up to my expectations after having first read Pride and Prejudice, I thought. That is why I reread most of them. But no, it was pretty hard slogging for me reading the others.
Honestly? Sense and sensibility was last on my list as well. Plus side most adaptations fix the pacing. Agreed on Emma 1000%. Pride and Prejudice camp. Listen to the audiobook, it helps the love of it the way it's read. I collect the adaptations actually and love them all, even the musical, even though it's mostly bad, their version of Darcie and the sister alone are worth the literal pain. Jane was pretty good too. Some good music sprinkled in there and while That is not Elizabeth Bennet (more Jo March if she were prepping for a role as Ebenezer Scrooge) there's a song after she gets to Darcie's estate that cracks me up Every Single Time. Even like P&P Zombies: I believe it is surprisingly faithful considering is a set in zombie land. And it gave just a little more Mary, no one has adapted her correctly imo and One day I desire a scene of her crying over her dreams for the creepy cousin miss opportunist snatched from her without affection. Haven't read Mansfield Park but it sounds like I really should. Subscribed.
I think I would do audio books for the earlier 3 books I’d read. Something about how this era of literature was written lends itself so well to being read aloud and listened to. I’ve never read any of the Austen adaptations. I think I watched the zombie movie. 🤔 I don’t remember much about it though. As I said I did a review of Mansfield Park on my channel. There are no major spoilers in the video but I find Mansfield Park to be quite polarizing for readers. The heroine Fanny gets a lot of hate because she is so unlike other Austen heroines, but shy girls need stories written about them too. Lol! Thank you for subscribing!
I have to put in a good word for Emma here. She lost her mother at a very young age and was raised by a hypochondriac father, whose fears and views on health, along with the social norms of the day around the family's position in the local society, have served to make her range in both her social and physical world quite limited. The poor girl has lived 21 years and never even been to the seaside , for Pete's sake! From her early teens she has, due to her older sister's escape through her marriage to a more normal life of her own, been enjoying the privileges and bearing the burdens as mistress of a large house and important position in her community, all the while knowing this is the only life she will ever have. She was also indulged and praised too much by most of the people in her very small world (with some of them this may have been an unconscious reaction to knowing deep down the life plan she was locked into was really not fair to a young, bright and lively child). Is it any wonder she is, at the time of the novel, a little immature and a lot too sure of her own ability and right to know better than everyone around her? I think she is another wonderful example of Jane Austen's understanding of human psychology and applaud the signs throughout the story that she is growing and learning, as well as the fact that she has enough wisdom to recognize that Mr. Knightley, with his steadfastness over the years in holding her to account for her selfish behavior and expecting her to listen to reason and improve in that regard, is necessary to her real happiness. I have high hopes for the grown up Emma!
Hello and welcome to my channel. Austen does a great job, as she always does, at the psychological reality her characters are dealing with. It is understandable why Emma is the way she is, Austen painted her perfectly. I feel bad for Harriet, who was discarded as soon as she was no longer needed to keep Emma company. Luckily Austen was kind enough to allow Harriet to marry the man she had wanted to but who she turned down (because of Emma). Emma almost ruined Harriet’s life. But luckily everyone got a happy ending. It was a great book.
@@ItsTooLatetoApologize I have to recommend the movie Emma 2020. It keeps to the heart of the book along with making some slight changes/modernizations that I think you would like in regards to Harriet and Emma 😄 now it's the version I hold closer in my mind.
I hate the pride and prejudice movie, love the BBC's series. My favourite Austin is Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and Mansfield park, have not read Sense and sensibility, hate Emma so it's my least favourite.
So happy to see someone else appreciates Mansfield Park! Here is my personal ranking:
1. Mansfield Park
2. Sense and Sensibility
3. Emma
4. Pride and Prejudice
5. Persuasion
6. Northanger Abbey
But I love all six novels!
Very interesting order! They are all great.
Mansfield Park is GREAT!
Here's my ranking.
1. Mansfield Park, Persuasion
2. Northanger Abbey
3. P&P
4. Emma, S&S
Nice video.
Thank you for watching.
Mansfield Park is my favorite as well!
Heck yeah!!! 😉
By the way found your channel today, been going through your videos like a marathon run. Love it, very impressed, 😊
Thank you and welcome to my channel! 😊
So interesting! What a great topic. So I have not read Mansfield Park and now you have me curious. Buy my number 1 is for sure P&P. I cannot stand Emma so move that back and I would bump up Persuassion. It is simple, but I think its just a delightful little read.
Haha! Emma as a character I cannot stand either. So self-centred. I liked Persuasion. The scene especially where Wentworth write Anne that letter was so tense. Well, tense in Austen terms. Lol!
Strangely clueless made me almost like Emma, but still not the book version.
I've read most of the Jane Austen novels twice. Have read Pride and Prejudice three times. It is the only book I have ever read thrice. Pride and Prejudice is the only one I liked. Perhaps reading the others was tinged with disappointment with how they failed to live up to my expectations after having first read Pride and Prejudice, I thought. That is why I reread most of them. But no, it was pretty hard slogging for me reading the others.
Hello. Yes, I'd have to say that Austen is not exactly my cup of tea, but I've watched Pride and Prejudice maybe a hundred times. Love it!
I would like to see your thoughts on the unfinished works. They are great too!
Thank you. Did you enjoy them?
@@ItsTooLatetoApologize I enjoyed them very much. It is very sad that she didn´t live to finish Sanditon in particular.
Honestly? Sense and sensibility was last on my list as well. Plus side most adaptations fix the pacing. Agreed on Emma 1000%.
Pride and Prejudice camp. Listen to the audiobook, it helps the love of it the way it's read. I collect the adaptations actually and love them all, even the musical, even though it's mostly bad, their version of Darcie and the sister alone are worth the literal pain. Jane was pretty good too. Some good music sprinkled in there and while That is not Elizabeth Bennet (more Jo March if she were prepping for a role as Ebenezer Scrooge) there's a song after she gets to Darcie's estate that cracks me up Every Single Time. Even like P&P Zombies: I believe it is surprisingly faithful considering is a set in zombie land. And it gave just a little more Mary, no one has adapted her correctly imo and One day I desire a scene of her crying over her dreams for the creepy cousin miss opportunist snatched from her without affection. Haven't read Mansfield Park but it sounds like I really should. Subscribed.
I think I would do audio books for the earlier 3 books I’d read. Something about how this era of literature was written lends itself so well to being read aloud and listened to. I’ve never read any of the Austen adaptations. I think I watched the zombie movie. 🤔 I don’t remember much about it though. As I said I did a review of Mansfield Park on my channel. There are no major spoilers in the video but I find Mansfield Park to be quite polarizing for readers. The heroine Fanny gets a lot of hate because she is so unlike other Austen heroines, but shy girls need stories written about them too. Lol! Thank you for subscribing!
I have to put in a good word for Emma here. She lost her mother at a very young age and was raised by a hypochondriac father, whose fears and views on health, along with the social norms of the day around the family's position in the local society, have served to make her range in both her social and physical world quite limited. The poor girl has lived 21 years and never even been to the seaside , for Pete's sake! From her early teens she has, due to her older sister's escape through her marriage to a more normal life of her own, been enjoying the privileges and bearing the burdens as mistress of a large house and important position in her community, all the while knowing this is the only life she will ever have. She was also indulged and praised too much by most of the people in her very small world (with some of them this may have been an unconscious reaction to knowing deep down the life plan she was locked into was really not fair to a young, bright and lively child). Is it any wonder she is, at the time of the novel, a little immature and a lot too sure of her own ability and right to know better than everyone around her?
I think she is another wonderful example of Jane Austen's understanding of human psychology and applaud the signs throughout the story that she is growing and learning, as well as the fact that she has enough wisdom to recognize that Mr. Knightley, with his steadfastness over the years in holding her to account for her selfish behavior and expecting her to listen to reason and improve in that regard, is necessary to her real happiness. I have high hopes for the grown up Emma!
Hello and welcome to my channel. Austen does a great job, as she always does, at the psychological reality her characters are dealing with. It is understandable why Emma is the way she is, Austen painted her perfectly. I feel bad for Harriet, who was discarded as soon as she was no longer needed to keep Emma company. Luckily Austen was kind enough to allow Harriet to marry the man she had wanted to but who she turned down (because of Emma). Emma almost ruined Harriet’s life. But luckily everyone got a happy ending. It was a great book.
@@ItsTooLatetoApologize I have to recommend the movie Emma 2020. It keeps to the heart of the book along with making some slight changes/modernizations that I think you would like in regards to Harriet and Emma 😄 now it's the version I hold closer in my mind.
Which movie of P&P? The 1995 TV version?
I love the 2005 movie, but admittedly I haven't watched the other yet. What is your favourite?
@@ItsTooLatetoApologize The 1995 A&E version is legendary in its fidelity to the text.
I hate the pride and prejudice movie, love the BBC's series. My favourite Austin is Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and Mansfield park, have not read Sense and sensibility, hate Emma so it's my least favourite.
I have never seen that BBC series. I should give it a try. Lol! Emma’s spot in your ranking is understandable. 😂