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Emma

Jane Austen

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Comfortably situated in Highbury, Emma Woodhouse believes she can arrange other people's happiness without marrying herself. Her friendship with Harriet Smith gives her a new opportunity for matchmaking, but local visits and romantic speculation repeatedly test the accuracy of her confident judgments.

55 sections160,303 wordsAbout 12 h 9 min
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About Emma

Austen keeps readers close to Emma's reasoning while allowing discrepancies to appear around its edges. Conversations about rank, kindness, and suitability become clues to motives that are easily misread. The comedy rewards rereading because casual remarks can acquire new meanings once the difference between Emma's assumptions and other people's lives becomes visible.

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Enjoy a social puzzle in which a gifted matchmaker must learn to distinguish observation from wishful interpretation.

This reading edition contains 160,303 words in 55 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.

Author: Jane Austen. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.

Opening excerpt

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

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Contents

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  1. Volume I — Chapter I16 min
  2. Volume I — Chapter II8 min
  3. Volume I — Chapter III9 min
  4. Volume I — Chapter IV16 min
  5. Volume I — Chapter V10 min
  6. Volume I — Chapter VI13 min
  7. Volume I — Chapter VII11 min
  8. Volume I — Chapter VIII20 min
  9. Volume I — Chapter IX22 min
  10. Volume I — Chapter X12 min
  11. Volume I — Chapter XI10 min
  12. Volume I — Chapter XII15 min
  13. Volume I — Chapter XIII14 min
  14. Volume I — Chapter XIV12 min
  15. Volume I — Chapter XV16 min
  16. Volume I — Chapter XVI9 min
  17. Volume I — Chapter XVII6 min
  18. Volume I — Chapter XVIII12 min
  19. Volume II — Chapter I14 min
  20. Volume II — Chapter II11 min
  21. Volume II — Chapter III18 min
  22. Volume II — Chapter IV8 min
  23. Volume II — Chapter V16 min
  24. Volume II — Chapter VI14 min
  25. Volume II — Chapter VII11 min
  26. Volume II — Chapter VIII30 min
  27. Volume II — Chapter IX15 min
  28. Volume II — Chapter X10 min
  29. Volume II — Chapter XI15 min
  30. Volume II — Chapter XII10 min
  31. Volume II — Chapter XIII9 min
  32. Volume II — Chapter XIV18 min
  33. Volume II — Chapter XV14 min
  34. Volume II — Chapter XVI15 min
  35. Volume II — Chapter XVII11 min
  36. Volume II — Chapter XVIII13 min
  37. Volume III — Chapter I6 min
  38. Volume III — Chapter II21 min
  39. Volume III — Chapter III8 min
  40. Volume III — Chapter IV10 min
  41. Volume III — Chapter V14 min
  42. Volume III — Chapter VI24 min
  43. Volume III — Chapter VII16 min
  44. Volume III — Chapter VIII13 min
  45. Volume III — Chapter IX12 min
  46. Volume III — Chapter X15 min
  47. Volume III — Chapter XI20 min
  48. Volume III — Chapter XII14 min
  49. Volume III — Chapter XIII16 min
  50. Volume III — Chapter XIV17 min
  51. Volume III — Chapter XV11 min
  52. Volume III — Chapter XVI15 min
  53. Volume III — Chapter XVII15 min
  54. Volume III — Chapter XVIII17 min
  55. Volume III — Chapter XIX6 min

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