Read Emma in Englishwith every sentence explained

Emma by Jane Austen was first published in 1815. In Passage you read the full text in the original English, marked advanced and filed under romance. It runs to about 157,300 words.

Handsome, clever and rich — and absolutely sure she knows best.

Emma Woodhouse has lived nearly twenty-one years in the village of Highbury with very little to distress or vex her. She has no intention of ever marrying herself, but after one successful match she is convinced she has a gift for arranging other people's love lives.

Her new project is Harriet Smith, a sweet, pretty girl of unknown parents whom Emma decides to rescue from a humble farmer and pair with the elegant vicar, Mr Elton. Only her old friend Mr Knightley dares to tell her she is meddling. But Emma rarely listens — and her schemes are about to go spectacularly wrong.

Jane Austen's sparkling comedy of 1815 has inspired many adaptations, including the hit teen film Clueless.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in English. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked advanced, with richer vocabulary and longer sentences. If it feels heavy, start with an intermediate English book and come back to it. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.