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I haven't read any Jane Austen since I was under 18. I was very lukewarm toward her at the time; I found her too slow. But now I'm staying in a village in Somerset, England, for two weeks, and I just can't escape my tendency to want to read about stuff I'm actually doing, so Persuasion was an obvious choice. I enjoyed the story immensely.
Anne Elliot is a very nice girl in her late twenties who is undervalued by her class conscious and mildly vapid family. She broke an engagement to a man she tru ...more
Anne Elliot is a very nice girl in her late twenties who is undervalued by her class conscious and mildly vapid family. She broke an engagement to a man she tru ...more


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