Author : Jane Austen Screen Reader : Supported Works with : Source : Status : Available | Last checked: 3 Hour ago! Size : 38,663 KB |
Sir Walter Elliot has raised his three daughters with his own sense of haughty pride. Elizabeth, at twenty-eight, has found no one good enough to marry, while Mary has, with some condescension, married the son of the local squire. The youngest, Anne, was persuaded to throw off her fiancé eight years ago due to his lowly station in life. When Captain Frederick Wentworth returns from the Napoleonic Wars a man of wealth and rank, Anne must confront her remorse and her unrequited love for him as he courts another woman. This is a story of second chances, humility, and the perseverance of love.
Persuasion...is to me the most profound of her novels, and demonstrates a fresh mastery of Shakespearen inwardness.
-- "Harold Bloom""[Austen] is a prose Shakespeare. She has a multitude of characters, all, in a certain sense, commonplace. Yet they are all as perfectly discriminated from each other as if they were the most eccentric of human beings."
-- "Thomas Macaulay""There's no one to touch Jane [Austen] when you're in a tight place."
-- "Rudyard Kipling"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"Jane Austen's last work, published posthumously in 1817, is her deepest and most introspective. Austen's view of the drawing apart and coming together of Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth is both wintry and warm.
-- "Globe and Mail (Toronto)"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.
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