A Jane Austin novel

For our English class, I am reading Emma by Jane Austin. In this blog entry, I will write about what I think about this book(as far as I've read).
My expectations for the book were few, but I had heard it wasn't actually easy reading. At the time it was written, people had another way of writing than we have today. The book contains a lot of descriptions and "unimportant" information about various characters. The first three chapters rarely contains any dialogs, which makes the book taught to read because of it's lack of, well, action. The sentences are very long, some 7 lines with letter size 9-8. The language is very formal and deep. the first chapters have still not managed to engage me much, and I'm waiting for the story to really begin.

I am not sure about the time the story takes place, but the place is somewhere in a two hours diameter from London. Or so I have understood.

In the book, we meets Emma, who lives alone with her father. The books starts with describing the character gallery in the book, we get to know about a whole lot of people that Emma knows. Quite boring information, but if you've read Anna Karenina, this is no worse.