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Persuasion

Jane Austen

Start date: February 1, 2013

Finish date: February 28, 2013

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Oct 03, 2010 Cee rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance, classics, historical

Lovely novel - and the fifth Jane Austen book I have read. Persuasion does feel more mature than her other novels - I vastly prefer it over Sense & Sensibility, and it's less light-hearted than Emma and Northanger Abbey. I like Anne, and seeing her finally reunited with her true love is touching. Though I appreciate the writing of Persuasion more than that of some of Austen's earlier novels, I felt like I could connect less well with Anne than some of her other heroines. ...more

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Feb 25, 2012 Katie rated it really liked it

Shelves: england

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

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