Jane Austen Novel Ranking

Have you read Jane Austen? Which is your favourite novel? Which is your least? Let me know in the comments.

[hope]

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!

[Galdra]

By the way found your channel today, been going through your videos like a marathon run. Love it, very impressed, 😊

[jxlol]

Mansfield Park is GREAT!
Here's my ranking.
1. Mansfield Park, Persuasion
2. Northanger Abbey
3. P&P
4. Emma, S&S
Nice video.

[pamelabradley]

Mansfield Park is my favorite as well!

[BrandonsBookshelf]

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.

[staffanlindstrom]

I would like to see your thoughts on the unfinished works. They are great too!

[kathygelineau]

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!

[Tolstoy]

Which movie of P&P? The 1995 TV version?

[gs]

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.

[barbarabaker]

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.

[Galdra]

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.