Persuasion - Rambling Readers

250 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2003 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-143968-6

(4 reviews)

Persuasion tells the love story of Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, whose sister rents Miss Elliot's father's house, after the Napoleonic Wars come to an end. The story is set in 1814. The book itself is Jane Austen's last published book, published posthumously in December of 1818.

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crabbygirl reviewed PERSUASION; ED. BY JAMES KINSLEY. by Jane Austen (OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS)

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1 star

this is my 2nd time trying to read Austen, and the first time I was successful (thanks to the bookclub lending out the books for the whole summer - so what excuse could I have?) but boy was it hard.
as an author, she is verbose - her sentences run twice to three times the usual length. her books are almost 200 years old and their limitations show. it's like a Victorian soap opera - all melodrama and overwrought dialogue with no bodice ripping in sight.