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.

Author Bio

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, to the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra Leigh Austen, in the village of Steventon in Hampshire, England. Though her mother was from a family of gentry, Jane's father was not well off, and the large family had to take in school boarders to make ends meet. The second youngest of the Austens' eight children, Jane was very close to her elder, and only, sister, Cassandra, and neither sister ever married. Both girls were educated at home, as many were at that time.

From a young age Jane wrote satires and read them aloud to her appreciative family. Though she completed the manuscripts of two full-length novels while living at Steventon, these were not published. Later, these novels were revised into the form under which they were published, as Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, respectively.

In 1801, George Austen retired from the clergy, and Jane, Cassandra, and their parents took up residence in Bath, a fashionable town Jane liked far less than her native village. Jane seems to have written little during this period. When Mr. Austen died in 1805, the three women, Mrs. Austen and her daughters, moved first to Southampton and then, partly subsidized by Jane's brothers, occupied a house in Chawton, a village not unlike Jane's first home. There she began to work on writing and pursued publishing once more, leading to the anonymous publication of Sense and Sensibility in 1811 and Pride and Prejudice in 1813, to modestly good reviews.

Known for her cheerful, modest, and witty character, Jane Austen had a busy family and social life but very little direct romantic experience. Her last years were quiet and devoted to family, friends, and writing her final novels. In 1817 she had to interrupt work on her last and unfinished novel, Sanditon, because she fell ill. She died on July 18, 1817, in Winchester, where she had been taken for medical treatment. After her death, her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published, together with a biographical notice, due to the efforts of her brother Henry. Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral.

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