At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
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Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. She is also the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey.
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I chose to take Persuasion as part of my holiday reading as its the only Jane Austen I haven't read. It slotted in nicely between Where the Bodies are Buried and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo! Such an eclectic choice but I couldn't put it down! The pain she/he suffered at the initial parting to please her family, and years later, to the realisation that they were the only ones for each other and their lives could be fulfilled, is the best you can get!
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....about one fo the most widely read and reviewed books in the history of the novel.
But I still have to write at least 14 words? What more can I say? Great book, great insight into women. But not very complimentary about women and I hope to god I never meet such a woman. I want strong independent women in my life
But I still have to write at least 14 words? What more can I say? Great book, great insight into women. But not very complimentary about women and I hope to god I never meet such a woman. I want strong independent women in my life
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Great read: the film is not a patch on it. Came quickly and is as described. Looking forward to the book group
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