Really enjoyed this! You’re wrong about where you ranked _Persuasion_ of course(🤓), but your discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of all the novels is brilliant.
Totally agree with your opinion on Northanger Abbey: it’s SO underrated! Emma is my personal favourite, mostly because the protagonist is so morally grey! Fab video, this made me chuckle throughout! 👌🏼
I think Emma is my favorite. Simply because Emma is so flawed, but she grows and matures over the entire novel. I love how Knightly and her play off each other and how they are there for each other to better each other and call each other out on their faults. Plus I love the village setting and all the characters. Overall I think it for me is a more overall fleshed out book with a world, characters, and story.
I agree. Watching Emma get so close to clarity and wisdom just to be blinded by her privilege and vanity is so interesting to me. In her flaws she is really compelling. There are so many fun and interesting supporting characters, as well. I think Emma is my favourite for comparative literature. I enjoy how every movie and mini series have been able to do something so different with the rich source text.
I often think that P&P should occupy this magical space and that only the other five should be subjected to rankings. I’m only now reading, finally, Mansfield Park, so can’t weigh in yet, but right now Sense and Sensibility would be at my bottom. It’s clunky and filled with so many beginner’s mistakes. You’re absolutely correct that Thompson’s lovely adaptation makes a rereading of the book much better. So glad to see Northanger Abbey get some love.
With the caveat that I haven’t yet read Northanger Abbey (yes, I know, go ahead and stone me to death), this is pretty much spot on! I sometimes go back and forth a bit on whether I like S&S or Persuasion more, though-Persuasion is undoubtedly the better-written novel, but I didn’t really connect to any of the characters. S&S, for all its faults, has Eleanor, and she is one of my three favourite Austen heroines together with Elizabeth and Emma.
I mostly agree. I rank Mansfield Park higher but I studied it at university with an excellent professor who made it fun. If I read it on my own I know I would like it less
While I do really still love Sense and Sensibility, you are tremendously right that the film adaptation is SO wonderfully funny and charming that it can make the book seem far less pleasurable. And absolutely: the couples are far less than perfect... I am with you on the top two, and on your feeling that they are so close!
Wow, we have the same ranking! Sometimes I might put Emma and Pride & Prejudice in a tie, but when I don't, I agree with you. And I am still settling on how I feel about Persuasion, but I think I must put it in the same place. Funnily enough, the first time I read Persuasion I found it slow and depressing and I disliked it. The second time I read it I liked it much, much better! I have only read it twice so far. And yes, Mansfield park can remain in spot #6 for all eternity. I think I have read it twice. I read Northanger Abbey at least twice, and Sense & Sensibility twice. I have no idea how many times I have read Emma and Pride & Prejudice. Glad to hear that the 90s movie for Sense & Sensibility is worth watching --I'll have to check it out! Very entertaining video :)
I find it difficult to choose the best of my favourite three: Persuasion, Emma and Pride and Prejudice. I think it depends on my mood! Northanger Abbey is only just behind for me, yet, Henry Tilney is my favourite love interest of all of them.
Loved this ranking video - excellent. I have been nodding along with so much of this and your ranking is very similar to mine apart from two of them - my video is out this weekend and is no way near as eloquently put! 😂 But I have the exact same problem with Sense and Sensibility - I adore the film and often blur the two in my mind when actually, as a novel, it is quite immature, which is often the undeserved charge levelled at Northanger Abbey! Also, much like you, I find the mysteries at the heart of Emma are even more enjoyable on a re-read because you can see the clues Austen planted along the way - so subtly done and I just marvel at its structure. Every conversation in that book, no matter how seemingly banal is a joy to read. And Pride and Prejudice is a perfect novel - I'm in complete agreement! But it would be good to figure out the point of Kitty Bennet. Perhaps she is there to provide Lydia with at least one other ally besides her mother to encourage her salacious behaviour!
Ah interesting! I'm actually going to make a video soon in which I'll try to argue that Fanny Price is not as annoying of a heroine as many people might think! Also good to see people appreciating Northanger Abbey since it's a personal favourite of mine 👍 Ah and I also don't think Fanny is as 'good' of a heroine as we think, which might make her a lot less frustrating as a heroine! OK last edit having now watched your entire ranking I think mine is surprisingly exactly the same as yours 😂 no one gets how good Northanger Abbey is!
I enjoy your videos and have read several books based on them this summer. I re-read Pride and Prejudice, and then realized I'd never read Northanger Abbey nor Persuasion, so read those, too, this summer. I like Catherine as a heroine and the commentary on literature of Northanger Abbey, but didn't stay as engaged as in the other two. Persuasion is my favorite at the moment, I think it's the second chances and the reformation of Wentworth that makes him deserve Anne by the end. I find their love story the most romantic of all Jane Austen's. Pride and Prejudice has more going for it, but I wanted to read Persuasion again, as soon as I finished it, because I didn't want to leave the story. Anyway, thanks for your commentary, it helps make reading a richer experience.
Great video, Claudia! I honestly really enjoyed listening to you bash Mansfield Park. Ha! I'm a fan of Sense and Sensibility as a movie, but I have yet to read the novel. Hm. I thought Persuasion would've ranked higher. My plan is to read Emma next year for Jane Austen July. Glad it ranked so high for you! I must to read Pride and Prejudice again! I really enjoyed the video!
Thank you! Sense and Sensibility is definitely worth reading, while it's not as perfect as the other Austen novels, it's still very enjoyable. Hope you enjoy it when you get to it, and Emma too!
Hi Claudia. I have to reread three of Jane Austen’s books before I make my final decision. I also read Northanger Abbey and persuasion For Jane Austen July But I also read Mansfield Park and really loved it. I think Jane Austen liked it best because she also refused a marriage proposal because of personal reasons. And maybe she was striving for goodness. I remember from my past reading I didn’t like Emma as much, but I could be wrong. I’ll just say that Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors. Aloha
Wait!!! There are Mansfield Park Fans??? People have read allllll her books and thought "yup that's my favorite?" I thought we all agreed on this?? I'm shook lol
Our Jane Austin ranking is almost identical!! The only difference is I put Emma riiiiiight at the bottom. I struggled so much to finish this one, sooo much waffle and drama!
You say Kitty Bennett had the least to do in pride in prejudice yet she has a couple of my favorites funny moments- when Mrs Bennett is angry at her for coughing and when Mrs Bennett keeps winking at the poor clueless Kitty.
I haven't actually read Sense and Sensibility yet, so I'll exclude that, but my list is: 1. Pride and Prejudice 2. Persuasion 3. Emma 4. Northanger Abbey 5. Mansfield Park
I agree with your read of Mansfield Park. I wanted to love or at least like Fanny because she’s a “passive” protagonist but I found her judgmental attitude insufferable. And yet…Edmund Bertram managed not to clear the bar of deserving her. A patronizing, bland, uptight, and fickle little man. Could not stand him. I honestly wouldn’t believe it was an Austen book if the antagonists weren’t so enjoyable. The rest of my rankings would be different (Persuasion and Northanger are tied for my top spots), but you made a great case for each placement.
Oh my goodness - I completely agree about Sense and Sensibility! I love the movie adaptations so much and expect to feel the same about the books and feel let down by not loving it nearly as much as the movies. Ah well, I can just enjoy the film adaptations more.
My ranking is the same. I don't actively dislike Mansfield Park, I just haven't felt the need to reread it after studying it at Uni decades ago. All the others I have read many times.
Mine has changed a lot over the years. Mine's like this- 6) Sense and Sensibility 5) Mansfield Park 4) Pride and Prejudice (yeah kill me) 3) Northanger Abbey 2) Persuasion 1) Emma I guess I relate to Emma a lot now more than other heroines. Also, all these are ranked but except S&S and MP, they're almost equal and it's a matter of personal preference and the phase of my life.
I agree with your ranking except that I would put S&S above Persuation because it has livlier characters. But every novel by Jane Austen is a work of genius though as you say there is something about the characters and story line in P&P which sets it apart from other novels.
For me it’s easy to say that Mansfield Park is my least favourite Austen followed closely by Sense and Sensibility but I find it extreme difficult to rank the remaining four - I often feel like the one I most recently reread is my favourite. It feels almost criminal not to rank P&P as your number one but then again I find Emma so entertaining and I love her character and everything about the book. Persuasion has always been my comfort read, especially if I listen to the audio book read by Karen Savage. It’s free on UA-cam and online and I greatly recommend it. And then there’s Northanger Abbey with the exhilarating Mr. Tilney, I literally laughed out loud to this book which doesn’t happen too often! Oh it’s too impossible to rank them!
How ignorant is Alexa? 😂 I’m going to have to reread Northanger Abbey given your comments and those of fellow followers. I read it decades ago and couldn’t even have told you the heroine’s name before I watched your video. Clearly it didn’t impress me back then. Here’s hoping the mature me will appreciate it more.
I have always thought there’s two types of Austen fans- ones who think Mansfield Park is underrated and those who think Northanger abbey is underrated. I fall hard in the latter, though I do enjoy Mansfield Park.
Though I like Mansfield Park and Fanny Price more than you do, I still have to put it at number 6. Pride and Prejudice will always be number 1. My ranking is pretty similar to yours, though I'm still not 100% sure about it. For now, it looks like this: 6. Mansfield Park 5. Sense and Sensibility 4. Northanger Abbey 3. Persuasion 2. Emma 1. Pride and Prejudice
It’s okay, Claudia, you’re free to be wrong about Mansfield Park 😎 Goes to show how entertaining this was that I already knew what 6, 3, 2, 1 would be for you but I was still rapt with anticipation, haha!
My ranking is the same as yours except for Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion switched. (I just can’t stand Captain Wentworth and how he treats Anne, he’s even worse than Edmund).
I don't want to be the person who tells you you're wrong about Mansfield's Park, so instead I will ask, did you ask Bill to ask Alexa for you because Alexa doesn't recognise your voice? Sometimes these robots can be very patriarchal.
My ranking is the same as yours although I have not read Sense and Sensibility (saw the adaptation) and Northanger Abbey. I loathed Persuasion and unfortunately that was my first read of Austen. I concede the great writing of all of them, just did not like the characters or the plot of Persuasion. Question: do you have a video about The Other Bennett Sister?
Our rankings are very similar. I actually prefer Northanger to Emma, but on everything else I agree. Perhaps it’s due to the length; Northanger is one that is easy to pick up and spend a couple of days with, while Emma is more of a commitment. Knightley is actually my favorite hero, and I think I always feel a little sorry for him for ending up with Emma. His life won’t be easy, that’s for sure. I would actually like to see him with Elinor Dashwood!
1-Emma, 2- Sense and Sensibility, 3- Persuasion, 4- Pride and Prejudice, 5- Northanger Abbey, 6-Mansfield Park is my list. I have to say we differ greatly on Sense and Sensibility and the 1990 film version, for me it is the worst adaptation of sense and sensibility and that’s coming from someone who loves Alan Rickman and believes he could do no wrong my biggest problem. I think one major problem with the movie version is Emma Thompson’s way miscasted. You are so right, no one has the same ranking of these 6 books. And that is great! Think how boring the world would be if we all agreed.
Why do we care how you rank Jane Austen’s Novel. Much better to allow us to make up our own minds your interpretation are so utterly subjective and outwith the context within it was written. Why not read the novels in the order in which they were written. Now there’s a novel thought. influenced by the film says it all!
@@SpinstersLibrary Sorry! I didn’t watch more than a few minutes of it. No reflection on the books , and none on you either. Just can’t see the point of using purely subjective individualistic criteria to rank such amazing books. But to be fair you are not the only one with a ranking on these books all based on personality criteria rather than any informed objective observations. I did not mean to offend you.
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Really enjoyed this! You’re wrong about where you ranked _Persuasion_ of course(🤓), but your discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of all the novels is brilliant.
I genuinely feel a bit guilty for not having Persuasion higher up because it is an excellent novel 😅
Totally agree with your opinion on Northanger Abbey: it’s SO underrated! Emma is my personal favourite, mostly because the protagonist is so morally grey! Fab video, this made me chuckle throughout! 👌🏼
I think Emma is my favorite. Simply because Emma is so flawed, but she grows and matures over the entire novel. I love how Knightly and her play off each other and how they are there for each other to better each other and call each other out on their faults. Plus I love the village setting and all the characters. Overall I think it for me is a more overall fleshed out book with a world, characters, and story.
I agree. Watching Emma get so close to clarity and wisdom just to be blinded by her privilege and vanity is so interesting to me. In her flaws she is really compelling. There are so many fun and interesting supporting characters, as well. I think Emma is my favourite for comparative literature. I enjoy how every movie and mini series have been able to do something so different with the rich source text.
Thank you thank you thank you!!! Edmund is THE WORST!!! Finally, someone agrees with me on that!
I'm not a fan of Fanny but she deserved better!
Literally found this video searching "Mansfield park worst Jane Austen" because I thought maybe I was insane. SO BORING
I often think that P&P should occupy this magical space and that only the other five should be subjected to rankings. I’m only now reading, finally, Mansfield Park, so can’t weigh in yet, but right now Sense and Sensibility would be at my bottom. It’s clunky and filled with so many beginner’s mistakes. You’re absolutely correct that Thompson’s lovely adaptation makes a rereading of the book much better. So glad to see Northanger Abbey get some love.
With the caveat that I haven’t yet read Northanger Abbey (yes, I know, go ahead and stone me to death), this is pretty much spot on! I sometimes go back and forth a bit on whether I like S&S or Persuasion more, though-Persuasion is undoubtedly the better-written novel, but I didn’t really connect to any of the characters. S&S, for all its faults, has Eleanor, and she is one of my three favourite Austen heroines together with Elizabeth and Emma.
I mostly agree. I rank Mansfield Park higher but I studied it at university with an excellent professor who made it fun. If I read it on my own I know I would like it less
Ah yes, I can see how that would make it more enjoyable
While I do really still love Sense and Sensibility, you are tremendously right that the film adaptation is SO wonderfully funny and charming that it can make the book seem far less pleasurable. And absolutely: the couples are far less than perfect... I am with you on the top two, and on your feeling that they are so close!
The adaptation really fixed a lot of the issues I have with the book, and in turn it's made me enjoy the book more when I reread it
Emma Thompson injects so much humour into the story. She's brilliant.
Claudia, may I remind you that the chimney piece alone in one of Rosing Park’s drawing rooms had cost all of eight hundred pounds.
My sincerest apologies, how could I ever forget
My ranking is exactly the same most of the time. Sometimes I swap Northanger Abbey and Emma. But I do agree completely on all the others.
They're so different from each other but both so well written
Wow, we have the same ranking!
Sometimes I might put Emma and Pride & Prejudice in a tie, but when I don't, I agree with you. And I am still settling on how I feel about Persuasion, but I think I must put it in the same place.
Funnily enough, the first time I read Persuasion I found it slow and depressing and I disliked it. The second time I read it I liked it much, much better! I have only read it twice so far.
And yes, Mansfield park can remain in spot #6 for all eternity. I think I have read it twice. I read Northanger Abbey at least twice, and Sense & Sensibility twice. I have no idea how many times I have read Emma and Pride & Prejudice.
Glad to hear that the 90s movie for Sense & Sensibility is worth watching --I'll have to check it out!
Very entertaining video :)
I find it difficult to choose the best of my favourite three: Persuasion, Emma and Pride and Prejudice. I think it depends on my mood! Northanger Abbey is only just behind for me, yet, Henry Tilney is my favourite love interest of all of them.
Loved this ranking video - excellent. I have been nodding along with so much of this and your ranking is very similar to mine apart from two of them - my video is out this weekend and is no way near as eloquently put! 😂 But I have the exact same problem with Sense and Sensibility - I adore the film and often blur the two in my mind when actually, as a novel, it is quite immature, which is often the undeserved charge levelled at Northanger Abbey! Also, much like you, I find the mysteries at the heart of Emma are even more enjoyable on a re-read because you can see the clues Austen planted along the way - so subtly done and I just marvel at its structure. Every conversation in that book, no matter how seemingly banal is a joy to read. And Pride and Prejudice is a perfect novel - I'm in complete agreement! But it would be good to figure out the point of Kitty Bennet. Perhaps she is there to provide Lydia with at least one other ally besides her mother to encourage her salacious behaviour!
Ah interesting! I'm actually going to make a video soon in which I'll try to argue that Fanny Price is not as annoying of a heroine as many people might think! Also good to see people appreciating Northanger Abbey since it's a personal favourite of mine 👍
Ah and I also don't think Fanny is as 'good' of a heroine as we think, which might make her a lot less frustrating as a heroine!
OK last edit having now watched your entire ranking I think mine is surprisingly exactly the same as yours 😂 no one gets how good Northanger Abbey is!
I know, it's so underrated!
I enjoy your videos and have read several books based on them this summer. I re-read Pride and Prejudice, and then realized I'd never read Northanger Abbey nor Persuasion, so read those, too, this summer. I like Catherine as a heroine and the commentary on literature of Northanger Abbey, but didn't stay as engaged as in the other two. Persuasion is my favorite at the moment, I think it's the second chances and the reformation of Wentworth that makes him deserve Anne by the end. I find their love story the most romantic of all Jane Austen's. Pride and Prejudice has more going for it, but I wanted to read Persuasion again, as soon as I finished it, because I didn't want to leave the story. Anyway, thanks for your commentary, it helps make reading a richer experience.
Great video, Claudia! I honestly really enjoyed listening to you bash Mansfield Park. Ha! I'm a fan of Sense and Sensibility as a movie, but I have yet to read the novel. Hm. I thought Persuasion would've ranked higher. My plan is to read Emma next year for Jane Austen July. Glad it ranked so high for you! I must to read Pride and Prejudice again! I really enjoyed the video!
Thank you! Sense and Sensibility is definitely worth reading, while it's not as perfect as the other Austen novels, it's still very enjoyable. Hope you enjoy it when you get to it, and Emma too!
Hi Claudia. I have to reread three of Jane Austen’s books before I make my final decision. I also read Northanger Abbey and persuasion For Jane Austen July But I also read Mansfield Park and really loved it. I think Jane Austen liked it best because she also refused a marriage proposal because of personal reasons. And maybe she was striving for goodness.
I remember from my past reading I didn’t like Emma as much, but I could be wrong. I’ll just say that Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors. Aloha
Wait!!! There are Mansfield Park Fans??? People have read allllll her books and thought "yup that's my favorite?" I thought we all agreed on this?? I'm shook lol
Our Jane Austin ranking is almost identical!! The only difference is I put Emma riiiiiight at the bottom. I struggled so much to finish this one, sooo much waffle and drama!
and the oscar for the best youtube intro goes to
Special thanks to Specsavers, without whom I never would have gotten this far 🏆
Yes this Northanger Abbey justice!! :)
So underrated 😻
we need more of it
It's such a fun read.
You say Kitty Bennett had the least to do in pride in prejudice yet she has a couple of my favorites funny moments- when Mrs Bennett is angry at her for coughing and when Mrs Bennett keeps winking at the poor clueless Kitty.
True, she's a decent foil.
I haven't actually read Sense and Sensibility yet, so I'll exclude that, but my list is: 1. Pride and Prejudice 2. Persuasion 3. Emma 4. Northanger Abbey 5. Mansfield Park
I agree with your read of Mansfield Park. I wanted to love or at least like Fanny because she’s a “passive” protagonist but I found her judgmental attitude insufferable. And yet…Edmund Bertram managed not to clear the bar of deserving her. A patronizing, bland, uptight, and fickle little man. Could not stand him. I honestly wouldn’t believe it was an Austen book if the antagonists weren’t so enjoyable.
The rest of my rankings would be different (Persuasion and Northanger are tied for my top spots), but you made a great case for each placement.
Oh my goodness - I completely agree about Sense and Sensibility! I love the movie adaptations so much and expect to feel the same about the books and feel let down by not loving it nearly as much as the movies. Ah well, I can just enjoy the film adaptations more.
I can't come at you because of your Mansfield Park ranking because I totally agree with you on that book.
My ranking is the same. I don't actively dislike Mansfield Park, I just haven't felt the need to reread it after studying it at Uni decades ago. All the others I have read many times.
Mine has changed a lot over the years. Mine's like this-
6) Sense and Sensibility
5) Mansfield Park
4) Pride and Prejudice (yeah kill me)
3) Northanger Abbey
2) Persuasion
1) Emma
I guess I relate to Emma a lot now more than other heroines. Also, all these are ranked but except S&S and MP, they're almost equal and it's a matter of personal preference and the phase of my life.
I agree with your ranking except that I would put S&S above Persuation because it has livlier characters. But every novel by Jane Austen is a work of genius though as you say there is something about the characters and story line in P&P which sets it apart from other novels.
My Alexa provided the answer to Bill's question when he asked. She was righton it!
Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park
Mine are: 1.Persuasion 2. P&P 3. S&S 4. Emma 5. NA 6. MP
For me it’s easy to say that Mansfield Park is my least favourite Austen followed closely by Sense and Sensibility but I find it extreme difficult to rank the remaining four - I often feel like the one I most recently reread is my favourite. It feels almost criminal not to rank P&P as your number one but then again I find Emma so entertaining and I love her character and everything about the book. Persuasion has always been my comfort read, especially if I listen to the audio book read by Karen Savage. It’s free on UA-cam and online and I greatly recommend it. And then there’s Northanger Abbey with the exhilarating Mr. Tilney, I literally laughed out loud to this book which doesn’t happen too often! Oh it’s too impossible to rank them!
How ignorant is Alexa? 😂 I’m going to have to reread Northanger Abbey given your comments and those of fellow followers. I read it decades ago and couldn’t even have told you the heroine’s name before I watched your video. Clearly it didn’t impress me back then. Here’s hoping the mature me will appreciate it more.
Alexa is absolutely useless at any kind of trivia that matters 🤣
I have always thought there’s two types of Austen fans- ones who think Mansfield Park is underrated and those who think Northanger abbey is underrated. I fall hard in the latter, though I do enjoy Mansfield Park.
Though I like Mansfield Park and Fanny Price more than you do, I still have to put it at number 6. Pride and Prejudice will always be number 1. My ranking is pretty similar to yours, though I'm still not 100% sure about it. For now, it looks like this:
6. Mansfield Park
5. Sense and Sensibility
4. Northanger Abbey
3. Persuasion
2. Emma
1. Pride and Prejudice
That is very similar, only 3 and 4 are swapped! But as I said, places 1-4 are very close together for me
It’s okay, Claudia, you’re free to be wrong about Mansfield Park 😎 Goes to show how entertaining this was that I already knew what 6, 3, 2, 1 would be for you but I was still rapt with anticipation, haha!
Ha 🤣 thank you
My ranking is the same as yours except for Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion switched. (I just can’t stand Captain Wentworth and how he treats Anne, he’s even worse than Edmund).
I don't want to be the person who tells you you're wrong about Mansfield's Park, so instead I will ask, did you ask Bill to ask Alexa for you because Alexa doesn't recognise your voice? Sometimes these robots can be very patriarchal.
Drab? Insufferable? You ruined my early morning cup of tea with your outrageous opinions.
My ranking is the same as yours although I have not read Sense and Sensibility (saw the adaptation) and Northanger Abbey. I loathed Persuasion and unfortunately that was my first read of Austen. I concede the great writing of all of them, just did not like the characters or the plot of Persuasion. Question: do you have a video about The Other Bennett Sister?
I've not read it! And based on what I've heard about it, I don't think it will be for me, unfortunately
@@SpinstersLibrary I’m not a true blue JA fan but I enjoyed The Other Bennett Sister.
If you swap Emma and Sense and Sensibility our ranking is the same. (I just love Elinor Dashwood so much - Emma not so much)
Elinor is great, especially the contrast between her and Marianne
Our rankings are very similar. I actually prefer Northanger to Emma, but on everything else I agree. Perhaps it’s due to the length; Northanger is one that is easy to pick up and spend a couple of days with, while Emma is more of a commitment. Knightley is actually my favorite hero, and I think I always feel a little sorry for him for ending up with Emma. His life won’t be easy, that’s for sure. I would actually like to see him with Elinor Dashwood!
1-Emma, 2- Sense and Sensibility, 3- Persuasion, 4- Pride and Prejudice, 5- Northanger Abbey, 6-Mansfield Park is my list.
I have to say we differ greatly on Sense and Sensibility and the 1990 film version, for me it is the worst adaptation of sense and sensibility and that’s coming from someone who loves Alan Rickman and believes he could do no wrong my biggest problem. I think one major problem with the movie version is Emma Thompson’s way miscasted.
You are so right, no one has the same ranking of these 6 books. And that is great! Think how boring the world would be if we all agreed.
Why do we care how you rank Jane Austen’s Novel. Much better to allow us to make up our own minds your interpretation are so utterly subjective and outwith the context within it was written. Why not read the novels in the order in which they were written. Now there’s a novel thought. influenced by the film says it all!
Literally no one forced you to watch this video
@@SpinstersLibrary Sorry! I didn’t watch more than a few minutes of it. No reflection on the books , and none on you either. Just can’t see the point of using purely subjective individualistic criteria to rank such amazing books. But to be fair you are not the only one with a ranking on these books all based on personality criteria rather than any informed objective observations. I did not mean to offend you.