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Original Title:	Persuasion
ISBN:	0192802631 (ISBN13: 9780192802637)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Lady Russell, Charles Musgrove, Admiral Croft, Elizabeth Elliot, Frederick Wentworth, Lady Russell, Mary Musgrove, Sophia Croft, Sir Walter Elliot, Louisa Musgrove, Captain James Benwick, William Elliot, Mrs. Smith, Anne Elliot, Henrietta Musgrave, Captain Harville
Setting:	Somersetshire, England(United Kingdom) Lyme Regis, England(United Kingdom) Bath, Somerset, England(United Kingdom)

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Paperback | Pages: 249 pages

Rating: 4.14 | 495046 Users | 16793 Reviews

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Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?

Jane Austen once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square. Readers of Persuasion will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final finished work.

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Title	:	Persuasion
Author	:	Jane Austen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford World's Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 249 pages
Published	:	March 18th 2004 by Oxford University Press (first published December 1818)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Romance

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Persuasion is said to be the best work of Jane Austen. While I have a certain reservation on that conviction, I do see why it is said so. By all means, Persuasion is different from her preceding work that I have read: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma. In all these works mentioned, her writing is light and glow with "sparkle and spirit". But in Persuasion, her spirited and sparkle writing is replaced by more mature writing. It is still light but there are more warmth and

One of the major sources of contention and strife in my marriage is the disagreement between my wife and me over what is the best Jane Austen novel (yes, we are both more than a bit geekish in our love of words and literature--our second biggest ongoing quarrel is about the merits of the serial comma). For my money, there are three of Austen's six finished novels that one can make a good argument for being her "best": "Pride and Prejudice" (the popular choice, and my wife's) "Emma" (the educated

Dear Miss Austen,Ummm... Anne Elliot is past her youth and bloom??? Heh? She is MY AGE! Scratch that - she is younger than me. **..........Basically, get off my lawn, kids. I mean it..............In all seriousness, this is the first Jane Austen book that does not feature a pretty and charming teenager looking for a perfect match in a cultured and rich gentleman. Instead, her protagonist Anne Elliot is well into the respectable age of seven-and-twenty, equipped with composure and maturity that

It's a worrisome affair if you have to plod through an Austen work all the while unsuccessfully battling the urge to slap more than half of the central characters. And this comes from someone who is well-accustomed to Austen's often whiny, vain, and hilariously self-deluded characters who serve as comedy gold and tools of subtle social commentary. But somehow in this posthumously published work, I feel she focused her attentions on lathering an extra layer of vindictiveness on to many of the

Jane Austen never disappoints me! This was the first time I've read this book, and, since it's one of her less popular novels, I didn't know what to expect. However, I quickly was swept up into the story and felt all of Anne's emotions like they were my own. I really enjoyed how, unlike the other Austen novels I've read, this one focuses on love lost and how, over time, people change in some ways but remain the same in other ways. Anne and Captain Wentworth aren't my favorite Austen characters,

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have

5/5 starsIve got a new favorite Jane Austen book, baby! My first time adding a book to my all-time favorites list in eight MONTHS!Yes, this one usurps Pride & Prejudice. I can hardly believe it. P&P remains in my mind the greatest love story ever told (or, okay, at least the greatest one Ive ever read). But this one has so much more than a killer romance and a wonderful set of sisters. (I still love you, Bennet ladies.)While I adore P&P, funny isnt the first adjective that comes to