Persuasion, Jane Austen
Persuasion, Jane Austen
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Persuasion

Author: Jane Austen

Narrator: Greta Scacchi

Unabridged: 8 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/2010

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Romance


Synopsis

In Persuasion, Austen’s last novel, she reveals the tale of love and marriage told with irony, insight, and an evaluation of human conduct. The characters, Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot, have met and separated years before. A reunion forces the recognition of the false values that drove them apart.

About Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775–1817) is considered by many scholars to be the first great woman novelist. Born in Steventon, England, she later moved to Bath and began to write for her own and her family’s amusement. Her novels, set in her own English countryside, depict the daily lives of provincial middle-class families with wry observation, a delicate irony, and a good-humored wit.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Angela on February 13, 2016

In a really little nutshell... The books in this trio are, understandably, the most popular of Austen's works. The relational aspects are deep, the family dynamics believable to the time and culture, and the prose is liltingly intelligent. The heroes, while not without flaws, stand out as unrivaled e......more

Goodreads review by Suely on March 07, 2012

Ja li nesta ordem ...Razão e Sensibilidade , Orgulho e Preconceito e Persuasão. Todos fantásticos e romanticos!!! Foram horas a fio de sonho e imaginação. Eu viajo em todos os detalhes das cenas junto com os personagens. Adorei!!......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on January 30, 2024

Jane Austen é a maior responsável pelo meu amor à leitura. Me forcei a ler Orgulho e Preconceito na pré-adolescência e me tornei apaixonada pela escrita de uma autora que me fez viajar ao mundo mágico de meninas apaixonadas. Não pude dar menos que 5 estrelas porque Jane Austen é um evento canônico n......more

Goodreads review by Carous on August 20, 2020

Resenha de Razão e Sensibilidade Estou feliz de ter lido esse livro por dois motivos: o mais óbvio que é se aventurar nas deliciosas histórias de Jane Austen e o segundo porque agora posso marcar mais uma leitura da minha meta literária de 2018 concluída. Yay A edição rosa da Martin Claret traz três......more

Goodreads review by Dr.J.G. on February 05, 2016

Pride and Prejudice:- "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." So the writer states right in the beginning. That is because while this is assumed to be a romance it is really a very astute picture of society that transcen......more


Quotes

“Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen’s novel, did something we can all relate to…she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn’t an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she’s still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austen’s storytelling is so confident, you can’t help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey.” Amazon.com, editorial review

“Though dominated by the intelligent, sweet voice of Anne Elliot, the least favored but most worthy of three daughters in a family with an old name but declining fortunes…She reads Anne’s haughty father’s lines with a mixture of stuffiness and bluster, and Anne’s sisters are portrayed with a hilariously flighty, breathy register that makes Austen’s contempt for them palpable. Anne’s voice is mostly measured and reasonable—an expression of her strong mind and spirit—but Stevenson imbues her speech with wonderful shades of passion as Anne is reacquainted with Capt. Wentworth, whom she has continued to love despite being forced, years before, to reject him over status issues…a sudden encounter with Wentworth, one hardly needs Austen’s description of how Anne grows faint, [this] perfectly judged and deeply felt reading has already shown that she must have. Even those who have read Austen’s novels will find themselves loving this book all over again.” Publishers Weekly


Awards

  • Wall Street Journal Pick