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Persuasion (1817)

by Jane Austen

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In her final novel, as in her earlier ones, Jane Austen uses a love story to explore and gently satirize social pretensions and emotional confusion. Persuasion follows the romance of Anne Elliot and naval officer Frederick Wentworth. They were happily engaged until Anne's friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her that Frederick was "unworthy." Now, eight years later, Frederick returns, a wealthy captain in the navy, while Anne's family teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. They still love each other, but their past mistakes threaten to keep them apart. Austen may seem to paint on a small canvas, but her characters contain the full range of human passion and moral complexity, and the author's generous spirit renders them all with understanding, compassion, and humor.… (more)
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    Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell (Shuffy2)
    Shuffy2: In addition to North and South by Gaskell, Wives and Daughters is another great read for people who love Austen's Persusion and Sense and Sensibility!
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    The Blue Castle by L. M. Montgomery (allisongryski)
    allisongryski: This is by no means an obvious recommendation. However, the quality of writing and something of the heroines' characters is similar. The heroines of these two books are both under-appreciated members of their families, who are thought beyond any chance of marriage. They are both forced by circumstance to find courage that they didn't know they possessed and they are rewarded with eventual happiness.… (more)
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    North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Anonymous user)
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    The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (electronicmemory)
    electronicmemory: Slow, languid stories about regret and life choices not understood until they've passed by.
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    Captain Wentworth's Diary by Amanda Grange (mzackin)
    mzackin: This is the story of persuasion told from the other side. It is very well written and stays true to the story, even quoting lines from Austen.
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    The Course of Honour by Lindsey Davis (electronicmemory)
    electronicmemory: Mature lovers who find that time brings them together and push them apart over the course of many years.
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    The Old House at Railes by Mary Emily Pearce (sferguson)
    sferguson: A great book that will be enjoyed by those who are interested in a bit of non-standard romance.
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    Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding (spygirl)
    spygirl: Helen Fielding's first novel Bridget Jones's Diary was a remake of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The sequel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a remake of Austen's Persuasion.
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Have have 2 versions of this - the paper copy was read years ago. I have also listened to the audiobook as part of Craftlit podcast. ( )
  nordie | Apr 18, 2022 |
Reread: half agony, half hope baby ( )
  roseandisabella | Mar 18, 2022 |
as always, austen is a delight; her jokes are god tier and her social observations are deft. i think, particularly so in this one, she goes above and beyond. like... she GETS it. however i do wish we'd spent more time with the love story and less with the dastardly plot afoot. ( )
  i. | Mar 12, 2022 |
This is the story about a very wise, kind, thoughtful, lovely lady on how she got back together with her ex-fiancee eight years after she broke off the engagement. I was impressed with the lady's fine character, especially since her family treated her so dismissively and she had to cater to her younger sister's every whim. I was also impressed with her unwavering devotion to her ex-fiancee over the years, and even when it seemed there was no hope, and even when she had other good options. At one point of the novel, she resolved that "be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his for ever." " Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation." So passionate! And the love letter that the ex-fiancee wrote her near the end of the story was just gorgeous. I wish the lady's family were nicer people, but they were admittedly interesting characters, and I was entertained reading about what they said and did. ( )
  CathyChou | Mar 11, 2022 |
This version is read by the great British actress Anna Massey. Wonderful in her diction. ( )
  AnnieMK | Feb 25, 2022 |
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L'occasion de s'attacher aux amours empêchées d'une héroïne tout sauf résignée.
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Austen, JaneAuthorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Alfsen, MereteTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Beer, GillianEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Bloom, AmyIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
De Zordo, OrnellaEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Dorsman-Vos, W.A.Translatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Fantaccini, FiorenzoTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Gibson, FloNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Harding, Denys Clement WyattEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kinsley, JamesEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Klett, ElizabethNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lane, MaggiePrefacesecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Le Faye, DeirdreIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Lynch, Deidre ShaunaEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Mathias, RobertCover designersecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Puttapipat, NirootIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Reichel, GiselaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Reilly, JamesEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Ross, JosephinePrefacesecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sanderson, CarolinePrefacesecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Sarah, MaryNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Savage, KarenNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Scacchi, GretaNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Spacks, Patricia Ann MeyerEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Stevenson, JulietNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Thomson, HughIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Tysdahl, BjørnAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Weisser, Susan OstrovIntroductionsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Wiltshire, JohnForewordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Northanger Abbey / Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice / Mansfield Park / Persuasion by Jane Austen
Emma / Mansfield Park / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility / Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Persuasion / A Memoir of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility / Pride and Prejudice / Mansfield Park / Emma / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Folio Society Jane Austen Set (Seven volume set: Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Shorter Works) by Jane Austen
Emma / Persuasion / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Persuasion / Lady Susan by Jane Austen
The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austen
Persuasion and Captain Wentworth's Diary by Amanda Grange
Emma/Mansfield Park/Northanger Abbey/Persuasion/Pride and Prejudice/Sense and Sensibility AND Catharine/Lady Susan/Sanditon/The Watsons by Jane Austen
Persuasion [Norton Critical Edition] by Jane Austen
Emma / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion by Jane Austen
Four complete English novels by Lawrence H. Feigenbaum
Persuasion: An Annotated Edition by Jane Austen
Emma / Mansfield Park / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility / Lady Susan / Love and Friendship by Jane Austen
I grandi romanzi inglesi: Nuove traduzioni by Jane Austen
OEuvres romanesques complètes (Tome 2) by Jane Austen
Œuvres romanesques complètes I, II by Jane Austen (indirect)
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (8 Volume Paperback Set) by Jane Austen
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (9 Volume Hardback Set) by Jane Austen (indirect)
Persuasion / Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Jane Austen: Four Classic Novels by Jane Austen
Persuasion: Complete Text with Integrated Study Guide from Shmoop by Shmoop

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Canonical title
Original title
Persuasion
Alternative titles
Original publication date
1817-12-01
People/Characters
Anne Elliot
Captain Frederick Wentworth
Lady Russell
Sir Walter Elliot
Mrs. Croft
Important places
Bath, Somerset, England, UK
Kellynch Hall, Somerset, England, UK
Uppercross, Somerset, England, UK
Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, UK
Somerset, England, UK
Important events
Napoleonic Wars (1803 | 1815)
Related movies
Persuasion (1960 | TV mini-series | IMDb)
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Persuasion (1971 | TV mini-series | IMDb)
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Awards and honors
BBC's Big Read (Best loved novel, 2003, No 38)
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006 Edition)
Guardian 1000 (Love)
AAR Top 100 Romances (200746 | Most Recent Rank - 2007, 54)
Guardian Essential Library (Fiction)
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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt.
On 8 August 1815, English newspapers took note of the departure for Saint Helena of HMS Northumberland and, with it, a prisoner. (Introduction)
Quotations
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not
I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days
A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
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the isbn 0486295559 is associated withe Dover edition of persuasion, not the Norton Critical Edition
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In her final novel, as in her earlier ones, Jane Austen uses a love story to explore and gently satirize social pretensions and emotional confusion. Persuasion follows the romance of Anne Elliot and naval officer Frederick Wentworth. They were happily engaged until Anne's friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her that Frederick was "unworthy." Now, eight years later, Frederick returns, a wealthy captain in the navy, while Anne's family teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. They still love each other, but their past mistakes threaten to keep them apart. Austen may seem to paint on a small canvas, but her characters contain the full range of human passion and moral complexity, and the author's generous spirit renders them all with understanding, compassion, and humor.
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Anne Elliott, bullied or ignored by her father and sisters, relinquished her hopes of love when she was forced to reject Captain Wentworth. Now, years later, they meet again: he, prosperous and eligible, scarcely recognises the faded pretty woman. And she stays quietly in the background as he courts the lively and affectionate Louisa Musgrove. So why, when she joins her family in Bath, does Anne hesitate over the eminently suitable addresses paid to her by a distant cousin? And why does Captian Wentworth appear there too? While Jane Austen is here as quick as ever to ridicule self-importance, self-interest and cold-heartedness, while she tellingly contrasts the icy snobbery of the Elliots with the openness and warmth of Wentworth's naval friends, this novel has a tenderness and gravity which makes it unique among her works.
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