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Persuasion

Jane Austen

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Jul 10, 2009 Sana rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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

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Nov 03, 2011 Robyn rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audience-adult, classics, romance, comedy-or-satire, beach-reads

Finally, I have read all of the main Austen novels! This was the last one that I just never got around to and my professor said that this is typical of Austen fans. For some reason, Persuasion just never gets read. This was the last of Austen's major novels and it certinaly has an edge of world-weariness to it. Although the characters lack the fiery charisma that exists between the likes of Darcy and Elizabeth, Anne and Frederick have a chemistry all their own. Their relationship is much more su ...more

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