Persuasion - Jane Austen

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Title: Persuasion
Author: Jane Austen
Genre: Classics
Rating: 8/10
# pages: 237 pages
Date read: November, 2006

Summary: When she was 21 years old, Anne fell in love with and was engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a young captain in the Navy. Her belated mother's best friend, Lady Russell, dissapproves of the match as being below Anne, due to Anne's claim to nobility, and Anne cancels the engagement, much to her and and Captain Wentworth's grief. Nearly eight year's have passed since she broke off her engagement to Captain Wentworth when she, Lady Russell, and a Mr. Shepherd, a friend of her father's, are forced to pose and intervention and tell her father that he must quit his estate and find someone to lease it to, or he will be sent tot he poorhouse. Her father, his only pride being in his social position and personal appearance, relents, but only if they can find suitable tenants - which they do in Admiral Croft and his wife, the sister of Captain Wentworth. Anne thinks that her broken heart has mended, until she sees him again. Anne and Wentworth must negotiate their past, their different social classes, and proper behavior to find their way back to one another. (Amazon.com)

Review: For some reason I had a hard time getting through this one, which was weird, as I remember loving it the first time I read it. Perhaps I just wasn't in a JA-kind-of-mood. Still, Jane Austen always makes for a good read, and when I finally got properly into the book I enjoyed it, although it's very inferiour to her other books. I don't think you get to know the characters as well. But as this is also the shortest of her books that I've read, that might be part of it too.

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Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Wow - I disagree with this! I think Persuasion is actually my favorite after P&P. I'd be curious to hear your opinions on a later reread and to see if age affects your viewpoint.

[bogormen.livejournal.com]

I was really surprised too, because I LOVED it on my first read through (age 18'ish), but when I reread it at age 27 I was somewhat bored by it. I'll try again in another ten years and see what happens then ;)