content: Personally, I love everything Jane Austen ever wrote to BITS. But none of her works (except maybe the humorously offbeat "Northanger Abbey") can match the high standards set by "Pride and Prejudice". There's the usual cast of comic characters, and some scenes really are a scream, but the heroine, Emma Woodhouse, and her 'consort' Frank Churchill are a bit too brattish for my liking. Their 'humour' (acidly bitchy spoilt brat gossip about the most kind-hearted and guileless members of the village) is just a little too vicious for me, and their appalling treatment of Jane Fairfax, and Harriet Smith, and the hilarious Miss Bates left me feeling a bit sick. Thank God Mr. Knightley's there to keep Emma in line. This is still a great novel, as witty and funny as "Pride and Prejudice"--but it's comedy with a bit of a nasty undertaste.