Book #83 |
Book: Persuasion | Author: Jane Austen | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Audiobook |
Pages: 249 | Duration: 09/10/25 – 09/11/25 (2 days) | |
| Rating: ★★☆☆☆ | Genres: historical fiction, literature, classics, romance, 19th century | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Second chance comes around after a previously persuaded broken engagement. 🖌6-word review: Not just a little torturous — disappointing. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives” | |||
| Description:* In many respects, Persuasion marks a break with Austen’s previous works, both in the more biting, even irritable satire directed at some of the novel’s characters and in the regretful, resigned outlook of its otherwise admirable heroine, Anne Elliot, in the first part of the story. Against this is set the energy and appeal of the Royal Navy, which symbolises for Anne and the reader the possibility of a more outgoing, engaged, and fulfilling life, and it is this worldview which triumphs for the most part at the end of the novel.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: Both the preantepenultimate and the antepenultimate books I’ve read mentioned and lauded this last-completed novel of Jane Austen, which was the impetus for my reading it. I was not impressed. I preferred — probably by a thousand times — Jane Eyre. YMMV, of course. | |||
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