Persuasion
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Tags: Classics, Novel, Women's Fiction
ISBN:1593083580
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When she least expects it, love is put to the test of time for lonely Anne Elliot. After the unhappy ending of a love affair, Anne has spent precious years in the shadows. Her lonely life is a cruel consequence of long ago honoring her family's wishes over her own. Everything changes, however, when her old flame—Frederick Wentworth—suddenly returns, bringing long-silent emotions and desires burning back to life. Twists and turns, old secrets and new romances will leave you wondering until the final moments—is it at last Anne’s turn to be happy and to be loved?
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About the Author
Educated and trained in her craft largely within her family home, Jane Austen (1775-1817) developed a singularly sharp eye and keen wit for chronicling the lives, loves, and misadventures of the English gentry. Although little-read during her lifetime, Austen has since been awarded a lasting place as one of the most brilliant English women ever to put pen to paper. Austen's novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey welcome readers of all ages and eras to delight in their timeless humor and poignancy.
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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 ...
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5/5
Reviewed by OneBttrfly on Jun 24, 2009
An ending worth waiting for
At times I struggled through the installments of this classic and at times I greedily clicked "send the next installment immediately" over and over. The ending was well worth the reading!
5/5
Reviewed by zhdanovat on May 22, 2009
One of the best books, romance true and pure as it is !
Enjoyed reading it! You just get into another time, another relations, another epoch. Everything is different, and not only dresses, but connections beteween peple, treatment to each other, and feelins and expressions. subtly, emotionally, WONDERFUL !
4/5 
Reviewed by pitbulllover19 on May 13, 2009
really good!
a little short but really good.
5/5
Reviewed by SmokeDiamond on May 4, 2009
WONDERFUL!!!
I LOVED this book as well. I love Jane Austen altoghether, but this and Pride & Prejudice are my absolute favorites. My own relationship with my husband had taken somewhat the same toll as Annes and Wentworths. Seperated for a few years... coming to find out that the love was stronger than ever! I LOVED THIS! That letter from Wentworth was beyond expression. I was so deeply affected by it i read it time and time again. I will read this again. I hope to see the movie soon. I just fall in love with Jane Austens characters so easily. Ive read a few of her books and once i read them all...i will start over again... with this one.
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Ratings for 'Persuasion' by Austen, Jane
| blisspriss | | 2008-11-02 | |
| blondierocket |  | 2008-07-28 | |
| CaroV | | 2009-04-07 | |
| casps | | 2009-01-21 | |
| jennanicole_84 | | 2009-03-23 | |
| jumila | | 2008-07-21 | |
| LaMaga | | 2009-02-12 | |
| lat62 | | 2009-01-30 | |
| lauzy | | 2009-04-02 | |
| Leah87 | | 2009-06-15 | |
| OneBttrfly | | Read review | 2009-06-24 |
| pitbulllover19 | | Read review | 2009-05-13 |
| reader_roxy | | 2008-09-23 | |
| rela909 | | 2009-02-14 | |
| shellym1614 | | 2009-02-16 | |
| SmokeDiamond | | Read review | 2009-05-04 |
| tcher | | 2009-01-16 | |
| tisharoo | | 2008-09-07 | |
| wishes2891 | | 2008-11-15 | |
| zhdanovat | | Read review | 2009-05-22 |
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