Ranking the Jane Austen Novels

In this video, I rank all six of Jane Austen's classic novels: from Sense and Sensibility to Persuasion.

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[JoshuaJClarkeKelsall]

How would you rank the Jane Austen novels? Also, for those of you who love poetry, I have started a poetry blog where I discuss a poem every week. You can find it here!

[LineMøretrø]

Im glad I found your page! Because of you I now need to read the Bronte sisters again 😂I read them when I was very young, and its so exiting to read books again later in life. I have read Jane Austens books so many times, and my favourite ones are Mansfield Park and Persuasion. I didnt like Fanny Price much in the first read, now I love her. And there is so many things going on in that book. I love to hate Mrs. Norris! Anne in Persuasion I adore.
English is not my native language, but I read the classics in english. Sometimes in Norwegian to, in case I dont understand it all.

[melaniehuff]

Persuasion is definitely my favorite as well! I can’t bring myself to suffer through the most recent film. Just from the trailer it’s obvious that the creators didn’t understand the book (especially the character of Anne) at all. I’m not as fond of Mansfield Park. I actually quite like Fanny, but Edmund doesn’t deserve her at all and so the ending bothers me…I completely agree about the Crawfords though. They are definitely some of Austen’s most complex characters.

[SandrineDamfino]

This is so good ! I love watching your book reviews/ranking of a specific author. I would absolutely love to hear your review of the works of George Eliot and Elizabeth Gaskell.

[joditc]

I totally agree! I would rank them the same as you did. I've always loved Persuasion the most. I also think Mansfield Park is way underrated. You made some great points about Mary and Henry Crawford that I hadn't considered. Thanks very much! 😊

[ceaprocca]

So glad to see you back!!! Hope your vacation went well!

[rebeccaday]

I love Mansfield Park. I actually think Fanny is one of the most feminist characters Jane Austen wrote.

[kevinrosero]

Great to see Mansfield Park so high!

And I agree about Emma -- great book but just a little difficult for me

[Vintageshabbychi]

So grateful I just discovered your chanel 😊

[Millyu]

So glad I found this channel and this video I have loved Jane Austen since I was little and her books were the first I read. Pride and Prejudice has always been my favourite then Persuasion and then Emma for my top 3. 😊

[dianaparedes]

Thank you! I really enjoyed this! Persuasion is such a wonderful novel! I actually became interested because I watched the Netflix movie and found it SO dissonant and uncomfortable, that I just had to read the novel to find out what was really going on. So I'm actually quite grateful to that horrible movie-- it made me a reader of Jane Austen!

[richardrose]

I agree with everything you said about Mansfield Park. I like Fanny and I like the book. I recently realized it is a version of the Cinderella story. Something to think about. I also like P&P, Emma and Persuasion - difficult for me to rank them.

[robertthomson]

Excellent analysis. The only change I'd make to the order is to swap Mansfield Park into first place, relegating Persuasion back to second.

[jesusdelcanto]

Have you read The Arabian/1001 Nights? The heroine of its frame story, Scheherezade, is mentioned in Persuasion. This Middle East anthology was very infuential in English literature in general.

[cathyallsup]

This is my list from favorite to least: Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility. I love the first four and like the last two. As I got older, Persuasion moved up my list and became my favorite for its subtlety and maturity. I love the sweetness and humor in Northanger Abbey.

[lizzy-wxrx]

Since I've gotten older Persuasion has also taken the #1 spot for me. Emma is probably my least favorite, and I'm always genuinely perplexed when someone says it's their favorite Austen novel! It has a claustrophobic atmosphere for me (I always love it when the characters travel someplace like London, Bath, or Lyme) and it doesn't have the wonderful minor characters that P&P and S&S have. I don't even think it's that funny, aside from some of Mr. Woodhouse's lines. I actually think S&S is her funniest novel, I laugh out loud whenever I reread it!

[gordanaivanisevic]

This list conicides with mine except for the fact that Ilike S&S slightly more than Emma. I read all of them multiple times, but I read Emma only once. Tried again on several occasions but just cannot get past the first 15ish chapters

[unioncityman]

Emma, just finished listening to audiobook few days ago, really struggled staying focused on this one and following the story line. Can’t say I liked it much, Mrs Bates has to be one of the most irritating characters I have come across in literature. Think I found it not very interesting because I didn’t actually read it first, then listen and finally watch the movie. That seems to help a lot understanding these old classics for me.
Mansfield Park is only one I am not familiar with yet.

[marcolivresque]

Great video, mate! I'd be great having you on instagram and reading your reviews there as well ;)

[escapistreader]

I need your opinion on Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. I have heard people say the language is excessively dense. But then it is also considered a great book by many. Shall I read it or not?