"Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty and socially inferior Harries arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, Emma persuades Harries to reject a marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon discovers Mr. Elton's true motives and her advice to Harriet goes terribly...

When Anne Elliot turned down Captain Wentworth's proposal of marriage, she allowed herself to be persuaded by her snobbish family's conviction of his unworthiness. But now, after a separation of eight years, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth are to meet again and the tables have turned. Her former lover's fortunes have prospered and he is now returned from a career at sea both eligible and affluent. Anne's father, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall,...

Emma Woodhouse delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She tries to unite people who are wrong for each other. Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with Mr. Knightly.

Catherine Morland is a young woman addicted to Gothic romance novels. Her family sends her to Bath, and in its society of decadence and deceit, she makes the acquaintance of romantic Henry Tilney and his family. When she is invited to his ancestral home, Northanger Abbey, a mystery unfolds, and she wonders if the fantasies inspired by the novels she loves are coming true.

The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of 18th century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.