Persuasion
Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English writer who wrote many classic romantic fictions, with her most famous novels being Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. It was not until well after Austen’s death that she gained fame for her writing and she is now considered one of English...
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Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English writer who wrote many classic romantic fictions, with her most famous novels being Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. It was not until well after Austen’s death that she gained fame for her writing and she is now considered one of English literature’s greatest writers.This version of Austen’s Persuasion includes a table of contents.
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Format: kindle
ISBN:
9781625397638
Publish date: December 25th 2012
Publisher: Waxkeep Publishing
Pages no: 170
Edition language: English
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...
(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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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