logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Persuasion
by: (author)
4.14 70
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each... show more
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, "Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780141028118 (0141028114)
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics
Bookstores:
Community Reviews
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it
5.0 Persuasion
Updated March 2020: Still wonderful. Original review April 2016: Sigh. Happy sigh. I really needed a great book. I don't know what was going on there for a while, but I started to feel like I had angered someone and my punishment was to read books that infuriated me for the rest of 2016.Persua...
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it
3.0 Hot Flushes and Palpitations: "Persuasion" by Jane Austen
(Original Review, 1981-02-25)I think it's evident, once one steps back from an emotional response to the novel, that it would have benefited from some editing and expanding by Austen, had she lived.I can see the flaws in it. It seems disjointed and overly episodic, and I think the excursion to Lyme ...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it
4.5 Persuasion
Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement. When I first read Persuasion, I must have been out of my mind, preoccupied, or distracted with something because how else could I not have enjoyed this book back then as m...
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it
3.5 "Persuasion" by Jane Austen, performed by Juliet Stevenson
I read "Persuasion" on a wave of enthusiasm for Jane Austen created by reading "The Jane Austen Project". I'd never read the book before and knew nothing of its plot or its ending. I found that this ignorance significantly enhanced my enjoyment of this book about lovers frustrated by circumstance an...
Mike Finn
Mike Finn rated it
3.0 Persuasion
I read “Persuasion” on a wave of enthusiasm for Jane Austen created by reading “The Jane Austen Project”. I’d never read the book before and knew nothing of its plot or its ending. I found that this ignorance significantly enhanced my enjoyment of this book about lovers frustrated by circumstance an...
Other editions (477)
Books by Jane Austen
On shelves
Share this Book
Need help?