Ranking Jane Austen Books! [CC]
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I’m really enjoying the Jane Austen content! Of course, with a name like Emma Elizabeth what choice do I really have...
Emma Elizabeth 😂😂😂
Emma Elizabeth Hello from a fellow Emma Elizabeth who also has no choice but to love Jane Austen!
I wonder what your two fav Jane Austen books are lol
@@hiigghhggg9150 lol
Lol
Merphy: "I have a soft spot for Emma"
Me, named Emma: Well, thank you! :)
@spill the hot chocolate I choose to focus on the positive, hahha.
Same
The fact that she named her sweetest character after herself says a lot... and I'm here for it
:P She sort of said that Jane and Elizabeth are based on her and her sister Cassandra and their relationship. Except Jane is Elizabeth and Cassandra is Jane. :D
Now I need you ranking the love interests. You could also include some of the other guys who ended up with supporting characters, like Bingley for instance.
gnampf1234 yes please!
Not much to debate here. 1) Darcy, 2) Darcy, 3) Knightley.
Clément Denis hahahaha agree!
Y’all always out here disrespecting Wentworth I s2g
I second this! Please make a video on this
Me: Has never read Jane Austen and kind of wanted to start but haven’t
Merphy: Makes a guide and ranking of Jane Austin
Me: clicks
Same
boring comment
Me too!
Same
It's been a few years. Have you start reading any of her books? ^^
In defense of Mansfield Park (my favourite Jane Austen)
-All the women do what they like in this novel. None of them care about what society thinks of them; they are all unapologetically themselves, like the men, for better or for worse
-It's hilarious! Mary is SUCH a laugh. She makes the dirtiest joke in the whole Austen cannon, for no reason at all. And everyone else is so ridiculous it's amazing.
-Fanny is the strongest protagonist in any Austen novel. She just carries on, tries to think kindly of everyone, and even when she finds she cannot, she is never cruel.
-The romance is heart-breaking. She just listens and tries to be happy for Edmund, even though she likes him, and knows Mary is not a good idea, because she's his friend, and wants him to be happy.
-She refuses Henry. Wooooo!
-The book is not a romance. Fanny gets her happy ending - ie, personal acceptance, and the romance is an afterthought. Her happiness is not dependant on her man. It's refreshing.
"Imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms". Northanger Abbey. I laughed out loud with that XD
Sadly, most YA authors (though certainly not all):
Takes notes.
Now that is a soundbyte
Jane Austen still makes the characters seem real where as today's YA novel just have it as a personality trait.
I love that you don’t really do disclaimers like other book tubers, it’s very refreshing to me.
It's great that you’ve celebrated how funny Austen is! Sometimes I think humour is too easily overlooked (especially in women writers) in classic novels. As Lizzy Bennet says, "I dearly love a laugh".
I think Elinor is more reserved rather than shy. She thought that her sister was inappropriate in her expressions a lot but she admired it. She was a bit shy during the romance scenes in the book but not throughout as a character
Interesting! I actually have grown to love Persuasion the most as I have gotten older. The more mature heroine and the themes around regret hit differently ten years after I read it the first time.
Agree!!
The melancholy of Anne...the letter that he writes her at the end...DESTROYS me
I’ve never seen stars in your eyes while talking about books. But Jane Austen brings out the charm in you. ✨💫
Also, i’ve only read Pride and Prejudice and plan to read more of Austen soon.
Pride and prejudice is such a masterpiece. When I reread it I realised how intricately it was crafted (one of the best crafted novels) and the subtly with which story continues. And the best part was... There was a time when I would laugh or widely smile every page because of Austen's characters' wit, sarcasm and stupidity (Mr. Collin.) This novel is a masterpiece indeed.
I haven't read her other novels...but now I will soon. Thanks for video merphy 😊
Fanny as your favorite character totally caught me by surprise, but it was such a nice surprise. I love Fanny and her resilience and she's just a lovely person overall.
But I totally agree with them being tied :)
I love Fanny! I recently ranked Austen's protagonists and she was right at the top of my list. I do find her easy to relate to, but more than that I liked her quiet strength and the fact that she did hold such strong convictions. She's wonderful.
Me too! Mine would be:
1- Fanny Price
2- Emma Woodhouse
3- Lizzy Bennet
4- Marianne Dashwood
5- Anne Eliott
@@user-rs7xf5tm9s my second place is Catherine from Northanger Abbey. I just adore that book and her simple, but good character.
Emma is my favorite of her books, because it makes me laugh so much! Love to hear your thoughts about all these great books!
Sense and Sensibility is my favorite. I loved the sisters' dynamic and I feel that introverted/stoic female characters like Elinor are underrated an underrepresented in fiction.
I’m so happy to see how much love you’re sending Emma’s way - one of my very very favorites, in all her exaggerated glory!
Also, Persuasion melted my heart.... that letter
I love Pride and Prejudice. For me it is always the best because the characters grow and change and admit where they have gone wrong. I also love Sense and Sensibility and they grow and learn that sometimes the smooth one is the one you want to avoid the most!
I really need to read the rest of Jane Austen’s books. I read Pride and Prejudice in two weeks years ago and loved it so much, then I moved on to other classics and forgot how much I adored it! Thank you for getting me excited about them again!
I absolutely adore Austen and feel like she doesn't get enough love on Booktube, thank you for these vids!
I am LOVING all the Jane Austen content!! I love her books so much and not enough people know how great they are!! Pride and Prejudice definitely has to be my favorite, but mostly because it’s the one I have loved the longest! Emma is probably my second favorite, and I can’t wait to see the movie!!
I haven't read Persuasion in about 10 years. You have convinced me to go back and read it again. (Honestly I can barely remember what happens and I'm so excited to re-discover this gem.)
I wish you would rank the love intrests as well. I really fell in love with Emmas love intrest at the end of the book (not spoiling who it is), because of one certain Thing that he does. But my favourite lead is probalby Anne from Persuation and my favourite book is Northanger Abbey. The charm and humor of this book is just so perfect.
Anne is definitely duty over desire until her family falls apart and she realizes she is the only one being dutiful. I love her so much.
Now I desperately want to know what Thing you mean😂 Their lovestory is my favourite, too
Spoiler
I am talking about how he not only offers to live with Emma's father but to leave his house and move in with her. Considering the time and society Jane Austen writes about, for me this is the ultimative prove of love and it actually his idea :)
It's funny because I liked him A LOT less because of one thing at the end of the book while before he had been pretty high on my list.
I have some Austen books on my shelf and I've been wanting to read them. I'm even more excited now! Once my semester is over, I'm definitely going to read Austen
Thanks for this video. This was really fun to have your favorites ranked in a few different ways. I have recently purchased all of her works. I have read Pride and Prejudice and watched that and Sense and Sensibility many times and love those stories so much. Really excited to be able to dive into her other works.
When I was in high school, I was told that we would read Pride and Prejudice in college and we read Persuasion instead. In college, I was told in two classes that we would read Persuasion because everyone reads Pride and Prejudice in high school. That’s how I have read Persuasion 3 times (good thing I love it) but never read any of her more famous works.
1) Persuasion
2) Pride and Prejudice
3) Emma
4) Mansfield Park
5) Lady Susan
6) Sense and Sensibility
7) Northanger Abbey
I know Darcy is popular but if we're talking about Austen heroes, I love Henry Tilney. ♥
I'm reading Emma right now and loving Austen's wit.
Clicked so quick 😊 I'm so excited to pick some of these up for the first time!!
I will start reading my first Jane Austin book. I bought sense and sensibility some months ago and I am ready to start.
Also, would be really cool if you made a video showing your bookshelf. It looks so pretty!
I've been waiting for this one! I'm also finally going to watch the Mansfield Park movie you recommended today. Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books of all-time, and it's also my favorite Jane Austen novel. If I ranked them, mine would probably go: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Emma, and then Mansfield Park. The protagonists fall in a similar order, but I'm going to do a re-read all of them later in the year so I'll be interested to see how the books and protagonists measure up now vs. when I last read them.
Giiiirl.... good ranking! I was just thinking when I started the video that I don't really have a ranking past 3rd place but our top 3 are the same! Some days I love Emma even more than P&P but P&P will forever be my favourite romance. I've read and seen dozens of adaptations, both modern and period drama, musicals, plays, fantasy retellings.... P&P adaptations are like sex and pizza - even if bad, they are still pretty good :D
As for Emma, I can't get over how amazing the 2009 TV mini series was! It reminded me how much I love the character development!
anyway, I am rambling. thank you for making Jane Austen videos. If you ever want a recommendation for any kind of P&P-inspired book, I'm your man... or lady, whatever :D
Fanny is simply the best character. She's so strong, she's come so far, she's so loveable, kind, she's literally my heroine.
Ooh, The Jane Austen Society! I have an ARC of that too! I’m actually due to participate in a blog tour for it after it comes out. I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it!
My favourite books by Austen are in order:
1. Pride and Prejudice (ofc), it´s just greatly ironically written and has such lovely characters like Elizabeth, Jane, Mr Bennet or Mr Darcy and such really unique ones like Mr Collins or Lady Catherine. Also I think that the couples at the end of the books are the best fitting ones in any of her books even though the author´s main point certainly wasn´t romance but a critique of society.
2. Sense and Sensibility, Elinor and Marianne are lovely and I don´t know which one I like more. I also love the beginning of the book where Fanny convinces her husband step by step to completely get around his father´s wishes. Also we have no idea where the story´s going just because there are so many plot twists.
3. Emma, just a funny story with a stubborn flawed main character seeing everything the way she likes and plot twists that aren´t necessarily surprising to the reader but to Emma indeed. She´s a snob until the end but we still love her. The writing is as great as we could expect from such an amazing writer.
If you find any grammatical or spelling mistakes, please correct me! I´m not from the US or the UK, so I always wanna improve my language skills.
It is one of my goals this year to read all my unread Jane Austen. I'm reading Emma very soon and this video just got me excited for the rest I have to get to.
This was great, I’ve been trying to get into Austen more after having read Pride and Prejudice a few years ago so this gives me a nice place to start! If you haven’t before, I’d love to see a similar ranking/comparison of books by the Brontes, since I think they also have several good books in which some are definitely more well known than others:)
I love your copys of Jane Austen, makes me want to buy them just to sit on my shelf, and if I reread her books (which of course I want to do soon) I'll read from the copys I already own.
I love this I am rereading Emma, and I am adoting it and loving that it is lined up with me being really being invested in Jane Austen
Good video!
I just finished re-reading Pride and Prejudice! I like Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey as well. I haven't read Persuasion in a while, but I want to read it again sometime.
I was just hoping you were going to post. 😊
Edit: just saw that you finished ATLA can't wait for your thoughts
I haven't read any Jane Austen before, but now I am really intrigued!! I plan on giving her a try now!!
I love how you talk about Jane Austin books! I've not read any of her books and I feel like it's in part because of how pretentious other people have acted about reading them. But I can tell how much you genuinely love them and that's so refreshing!
Man, I gotta read more than pride and prejudice. And reread pride and prejudice!
Loving the Jane Austin content!!!
I just finished Emma and I loved it, I’m definitely picking up more Jane Austen books
Favourites for me are Mansfield Park, Emma and Sense and Sensibility. Emma especially like Little Women (I know different author) are comfort books for me, I can go back and read them over and over again and just swoon.
I’m here for Austen, Merphy, and my giant coffee ☕️
After I finished panto one year, I went to the DSM's house for a few days in Derbyshire and she sat me down and made me watch the entire BBC Pride and Prejudice series (and also Pride and Prejudice and Zombies!) After I got back I bought the book and it's been one of my favourite books since! I used to put on the BBC series when I was feeling ill, it just has this comforting feeling to it and the portrayal of the characters are fantastic!
Basically all of these books, characters and romances are the best and are fighting for the first places XD Loved this video! Now I'll have to read an Austen book!
Thanks so much for this video! I only read P&P in high and found it alright... except I was binge reading dozens of dystopian novels at the time, so poor P&P didn't strike my fancy. After your video, I decided to go online and begin reading her works, one by one!
Favourite Austen Book
1. Emma
2. Northanger Abbey
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Persuasion
5. Mansfield Park
6. Sense and Sensibility
Favourite Austen Heroine
1. Emma
2. Lizzy
3. Fanny
4. Catherine
5. Anne
6. Elinor
Favourite Austen Love Interest
1. George Knightley
2. Henry Tilney
3. Fitzwilliam Darcy
4. Captain Wentworth
5. Edward Ferrars
6. Edmund Bertram
Persuasion is my favourite but I haven't read all if hers. Watched every adaptation tho
OMG!! I feel like you, I love Jane Austen's novels so much that It is hard for me to decide which one is the best... all of them are really good. I also think Pride & Prejudice is my favorite, though. It's a masterpice!! 😍❤️
I need to read me some more JA. I've only read P&P. Loved it.
That is so funny that Fanny is your favourite! Everyone always shits on her (I did too), but the older I get the more and more I adore and love her. A wonderful character!!
Awesome vlog!
Ugh, finish up Book 3 of TLA, lol. I get my hopes up every time I see you post a new video
Just filmed my videos for it today!
Merphy Napier Well, my quarantine just got a whole lot better! I was just joking, I like the book reviews. But yeah, TLA is legit one of the best shows of all time and it’s fans really love hearing new fans talk about it, and you’ve been knocking them out of the park with your thoughts. Thanks a lot for all you do
This is the correct ranking, well done!
That's so funny! I've just been binging on Jane Austen. I just read Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and am reading Northanger Abby right now. They are so much fun! Mansfield Park will be next.
Mind blown. Haven't read Jane Austen yet but can't wait!
You mentioned you haven't read any of Austen's short stories. I would definitely recommend Lady Susan. It's a completely different style and is told from the villain's perspective, which is really interesting. You keep rooting for the villain and then remembering that no, that's not good. And the movie is pretty good too :)
Love your channel!
Loved S&S too, I could really relate to both sisters, normally I'm Elinor, but sometimes I can just explode like Marianne 😆
Just finished reading Emma and had so much. So much that now I'm listening to an Audible abridged adaptation of it and it's really good. I recommend you try it out. I think I'll read Northanger Abbey next, and then a reread of P&P. 💕
Have you watched the new Emma movie? I watched it before reading the book (oops) and thought it was amazing! The casting choice for Emma herself is perfect! After reading the book I realise how much the movie leaves out, but thats kind of a given for movies, and it's still really good
If you liked the new Emma movie, you should really watch the older one with Gwyneth Paltrow! I personally think the older movie is tons better.
Love the Jane Austen videos! Still reading Emma haha. You should watch the Pride and Prejudice miniseries BBC- it's on Amazon prime!
My favorite of Jane Austen has to be Emma, I relate to her character so much as I tend to be a bit...Emma 😂
Ikr!! People throw unjustified hate on her character calling her a spoilt brat when in reality we all have a bit of Emma in us. Sometimes We see what we want to see. We're not all perfectly rational all the time!!
This is inspiring me to read more classics
I'm starting with Sense and Sensibility and I quite like it. It's the first Austen novel I'm reading and I'm really really enjoying it
It's time to bring new eyes to classic Literature. Classic literature can be new to those who have not read them. I definitely will check out some.
*Me*:
Not planning on reading any Jane Austen books
*Merphy*:
Makes this video
*Me*:
Clicks
Ikr, my TBR is bursting already.
Why yes, yes I do want you to rank all the romances and the love interests, please. And then do the supporting casts. 😁 There's no such thing as too much Austen content.
pride and prejudice is my favorite of hers as well!
ok I love Austen but I've only read Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion, and that a few years ago... Now I wanna go anr rear them all! Btw I'm currently reading Rebecca because I saw your review and it is amazing :D
I'm not sure that anybody that saw your previous videos would be surprised by your number 1 on the protag list XD
Honestly she's amazing and I love her too
I wish this was a tier ranking video!!!
I'm reading Emma for the first time right now and it's soooo funny! All of the characters are so ridiculous- every time Mr. Woodhouse says anything I die laughing.
I completely agree with your rankings. There's a reason that Pride and Prejudice is such an iconic novel. Also, interestingly, Fanny Price has been Austen's most controversial character ever since Mansfield Park was published, even Austen's own mother not liking the character. With Mansfield Park, people either love or hate it, not much in-between. In college, I thought Sense and Sensibility was the best but when I re-read both books during Covid, I changed my mind and now like Pride and Prejudice the best.
Anne is the protagonist I relate to the most ngl
I love the novels by Jane Austen as well.
I can also recommend the audio book "The Jane Austen BBC Radio Drama Collection - Six BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations ". You can find it on audible. Each novel is abridged, but it´s very well done. :)
Have you read Lady Susan? Super short and incredibly funny! Love Jane Austen so much, this video was great :)
Books:
Emma
Northanger Abbey
S&S
P&P
Mansfield Park
(Haven't read Persuasion or Sanditon.)
Leads:
Emma
Fanny
Lizzie
Elinor/Marianne
Catharine
Merphy you should see The Lizzie Bennet Diaries! (and read the companion book) It is IMO, the best adaptation/modernization of P&P. How the creators adapted everything to this time is great. Hope you give it a try!
Northanger Abbey and Emma are my favourites, they’re both lighthearted and funny and easy to read. I’m a bit surprised you couldn’t tell who Emma would end up with though, I actually thought that was obvious.
Mansfield Park was definitely my least favourite, I found it rather a slog and can’t even remember much of the plot now. I need to give it another go one day.
hey merphy! could you tell me where you got all your paperback editions of the wheel of time series ?
Merphy, I'd love you to rank your favorite Jane Austen film adaptations! I didn't care for sense and sensibility, but I was so surprised at how well I liked the movie adaptation of persuasion. Gold standard for me though is still BBC's mini series for pride and prejudice.
Which version of Sense and Sensibility did you watch?
I probably need to re-read these, but I always feel reading Jane Austen is like taking a literary bubble bath. She takes her time pacing-wise, but in a way that feels almost luxurious? While I'm not sure how I'd rank these today, in my 30s, when I read them in my 20s I loved how weird Catherine Moreland was in comparison to the other protagonists. Fanny Price was probably my least favorite just because of how stodgy she felt to me at the time, though given her circumstances it's totally understandable why she is the way she is. Elizabeth Bennet is an iconic character for a reason, and I really enjoyed how she stood up for herself and refused to back down, even in a society where being a headstrong young woman was definitely not respected or encouraged (not that it necessarily is now, but it's more accepted). Eleanor Dashwood was really interesting to me, and I loved her pairing with Marianne. I felt like that relationship did a lot to explain why Eleanor acted the way she did, and why she had become this person who was a bit more cautious, but still shady AF when she felt like it. Anne Elliott was probably my favorite because she felt the most mature of these women, she wasn't as starry-eyed as some of them when it came to romance, but the way that story ended felt so earned and exciting. In all honesty, the only one I haven't actually finished is Emma because every time I start to read it something seems to happen, and I love Austen so much that there's something almost exciting about the idea that I still have one of her books left to read, but I have a truly beautiful set of them and I know I'll get around to it one of these days. Plus I've seen Clueless like 50 times, so that's close, right? Lol. Persuasion is still my favorite, but I'll be interested to see if that changes now that I'm older. As always, I love getting to hear your perspectives and opinions, and thank you so much for all the free entertainment. You're amazing.
I really like North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell which I feel is similar to Pride and Prejudice.
I recently finished Emma and I have to say that I adore her character. If you can make me hate a character by the start of the book and love her by the end, I will forever respect your work. I love how much Emma grows and changes throughout the book.
Amazing video
My ranking:
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
Although I love them all.
I’ve read four of Austen’s books so I’m only gonna rank the four I’ve read:
1) Pride and Prejudice - one of my favorite books of all time. There’s nothing I dislike about it. It’s perfect.
2) Emma - I love Emma (the mc) so much, and the story is charming and sweet.
3) Persuasion - even though the story isn’t all that thrilling, it’s one of the best romances I’ve ever read
4) I stopped reading Sense and Sensibility half way through so obviously it’s at the bottom lol It just wasn’t catching my interest. Maybe I’ll give it a second shot.
Same with Sense and Sensibility!
Sense and sensibility does pick up in the second half, that said it is still my least favorite (I have read the same four)
I highly recommend the 2007 version of Persuasion (film), it is what finally made me fall in love with Anne Elliot as a character!
I love that version too!
I’m actually re-reading pride and prejudice right now. I’m loving it way more than I did when I first read it 10 years ago. I need to give the others a try now!
Possibly controversial Austen ranking:
1. Persuasion
2. Pride and Prejudice
3. Northanger Abbey
4. Sense and Sensibility
5. Mansfield Park
6. Emma
Gosh I wish I had someone near me who loved books as much as I do so we could just sit and chat and argue about our Austen ranking and other things like that.
I recently read Pride and Prejudice for a literature subject in university and I enjoyed it, but I think that being “forced” to read it took some of the enjoyment away. I was planning on reading some other Jane Austen book in the future, but I didn’t really know/care which one. After these last two videos I’m excited to read them all, especially Northanger Abbey
My personal favourite is Persuasion. I couldn't even say why. Probably because it was the first Austen novel I ever read. If I had to put the others in order it goes P+P, NA, S+S, MP and Emma.
I'm currently reading all of her novels as well. Just started Mansfield Park and I have no idea what's going on as my brain keeps tuning it out as I work. I've not heard of the Jane Austin society and just found out there is a book/movie called the Jane Austin book club. Sounds very similar to the former.
Also I loved the movie Austenland.