Headstrong, confident, young, and very beautiful, Emma Woodhouse is one of the great female characters in world literature. Seemingly only concerned with the romance of others, she decides to inject a little more zest into her friends' love lives. But her efforts fail and lead to the strangest of entanglements. It is only in the end that things take a turn for the better. Jane Austen's last novel, published in 1817, one year before her death, still captivates us with its brilliant language, its ...