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Before reading this novel, Emma was the favorite among my "five starred" Austen novels, but now it's most definitely Persuasion. It was a thoroughly satisfying read, more elegant and subtler than any of her other works, and much quicker to get through as well. The novel looks closely at class rigidity and the role persuasion plays in the lives of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth.
Anne Elliot is a sensible, intelligent, and empathetic woman, who at 27 has lost her "bloom of youth" and is overloo ...more
Anne Elliot is a sensible, intelligent, and empathetic woman, who at 27 has lost her "bloom of youth" and is overloo ...more
Reading this online, and I got sidetracked so it took a long time. Worth it? Definitely!
I enjoyed this classic but not perhaps as much as Pride and Prejudice
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Aug 31, 2014
Alexis
marked it as to-read
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Kris Springer
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