I just finished reading Mansfield Park and can finally say that I have read my way through the Jane Austen anthology. Some I haven't read since high school, but I have read them all, including Lady Susan. And now, for your reading pleasure I will rank the Jane Austen novels in order of most to least favorite.
1. Persuasion
2. Sense and Sensibility
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Mansfield Park (I saw the movie of this before reading the book, and I can't decide if that made me like it
more or less. I think less because I knew what was coming and I kept visualizing the characters as their actors in the film.)
5. Northanger Abbey
6. Emma
If we were talking movies, my rankings would be quite different. I know there are multiple versions of many of these, but I'm talking the most famous version, probably the one you have seen or think of first.
1. Pride and Prejudice (A&E/BBC version)
2. Mansfield Park
3. Emma
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. Persuasion (loved the book, but the movie was boring and hard to follow)
6. Northanger Abbey (I haven't seen a movie version of this. There probably is one, but I can't imagine it being very good.)
How would your list differ from mine?
4 comments:
Have you read Lady Susan? I didn't raelly like it.
I think I have read all of them, but it has been so long that I don't think I could even give a basic plot summary. I probably liked Emma least of all. I liked Mansfield Park quite a lot. I should probably reread Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, and Sense and Sensibility.
I don't even remember which movies I've seen. Once with my friends in high school we stayed up one night watching a few of them, but I don't even remember which.
I've been working through Lark Rise to Candleford in my movie/tv watching time.
Here is my list when it comes to books. I remember enough of them all except Emma, so it must have just been middling in my mind.
1. Mansfield Park
2. Persuasion
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. Emma (I guess)
6. Northanger Abbey
7. Lady Susan (I also didn't like that one at all)
I haven't seen movie adaptations for all of them, so I can't rate those. At BYU I went on a date to see the BYU performance of Persuasion. It was actually pretty good. I don't think my date had any clue what it was before we went. That was funny.
I know I haven't read all of them. In fact the last Jane Austin book I read was while I was working at the bank.
I did not like Mansfield Park. Pride and Prejudice might be my favorite followed closely by Persuasion if I am remembering correctly.
I do like both movie versions of Pride and Prejudice and also the Gwenyth Paltrow version of Emma.
Lady Susan was lousy.
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