Emma
Jane Austen, 1815.
Emma Woodhouse is clever, rich, and sure she knows best, so she tries matchmaking for her friends. Her plans go wrong in funny ways, and she slowly learns how little she understood the people around her, and herself.
Public-domain text. First published in 1815; Jane Austen died in 1817, so this text is in the public domain in the US, Canada, the EU and India. Summary and notes written by ViralScopeHub.