Emma

Emma is one of the most famous novels by Jane Austen, that followed Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park, and was first published in 1815 less than two years before her death. The story of Emma Woodhouse, a young, handsome, clever and rich woman, who enjoys playing match-maker and meddling with other people's life, is typical Austen in exposing one of her core themes, the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security, and in the biting social commentaries of Regency England.