false 2156 298 'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.' Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances. Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future. 2534720 book 1818 Persuasion total:29486|5:12417|4:10383|3:5407|2:1016|1:263| 29486 122133 39668 2959 5 39 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Mon Mar 31 13:34:12 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 31 13:34:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 20 false false Mon Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 13 08:28:23 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 11 10:49:04 -0800 2008 6 Persuasion also shows more emotion than Jane Austen's other books. There is a great deal of walking and sighin...more...]]> 5 16 false false Wed Jul 09 04:00:56 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 04:12:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 9 false false Mon Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 00:14:33 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 07:43:31 -0700 2008 Pride and Prejudice. Patience, is the keyword for me to finished this book. Frankly, it takes me a while to get into the language. And after reading this book I daresay that all of her book contains happy ending and marriages :)
Bottom line, it's abou...more...]]> 1 6 true false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 19:32:26 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 20:02:14 -0700 2007
Perhaps the atmosphere affected me--dim lighting on stuffy summer DC metro platforms--perhaps it was the biogra...more...]]> 5 6 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 07:27:58 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 20:29:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 6 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 21:35:28 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 20:24:40 -0700 2009 2 Pride and Prejudice is clearly her most liked, but the heroine of Emma really is a better model of som...more...]]> 5 8 false false Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sat Aug 18 09:31:27 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 09:54:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 6 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 30 10:17:08 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 21 20:13:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 6 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 21:43:26 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 18:26:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Wed Jun 04 15:32:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 08:32:58 -0700 2008 Persuasion, was "too good for me," and I cannot help but echo her sentiments. A woman of great good sense, utterly lacking in snobbery or pretension (despite her father's "elevated" status as a baronet), An...more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 19:29:13 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 21 19:29:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984 Fri Sep 21 11:06:38 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 21 11:09:26 -0700 2007 Pride and Prejudice is the flashy filly to such an extent that this gem is often overlooked.

If you're not a fan of Austen, I'm not going to attempt to persuade you otherwise.

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Why this above the others, though?

Well, for me, this novel is, and always has been since the first time I read it at sixteen, a much more mature work than Austen's earlier novels. I can relate ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 23:33:53 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 23 22:38:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false true Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 23 10:15:33 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 29 08:06:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3505963