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Persuasion Includes Ebook

Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. Can Frederick forgive Anne for listening to her family instead of her heart?

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  • "Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. Can Frederick forgive Anne for listening to her family instead of her heart?"@en
  • "Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Austen wrote of her, "She is almost too good for me." Persuasion is the story of Anne and Captain Wentworth and their long awaited union. The world of country gentry in Regency England serves as a setting while portraying the many aspects of proper society - its failings and humor."
  • "Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Austen wrote of her, "She is almost too good for me." Persuasion is the story of Anne and Captain Wentworth and their long awaited union. The world of country gentry in Regency England serves as a setting while portraying the many aspects of proper society - its failings and humor."@en
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story. She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had for ever put an end to such a prospect."
  • "Jane Austen's rich and charming novel about a virtuous young woman's search for love amidst the fickle world of country gentry in Regency England is one of her most memorable works. Our heroine, Anne Elliot, exists in a world where shallowness and hypocrisy present a challenge to her own centered values and tender emotions."@en
  • "A tale of love and marriage, told with the irony and insight. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and separated years before. The story of how their reunion forces a recognition of the false values and people that drove them apart."@en
  • "Anne Elliot passes up an opportunity for happiness when she declines a match in marriage in hopes of bettering her position. Beauty fades as seven years pass, when her former love returns a wealthier man. Anne finds herself slighted and all traces of their former intimacy gone. Mishaps and mischief mount as the pair tempt fate in this comic story of love."@en
  • ""Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Austen wrote of her, "She is almost too good for me." Persuasion is the story of Anne and Captain Wentworth and their long awaited union. The world of country gentry in Regency England serves as a setting while portraying the many aspects of proper society - its failings and humor"--Container."
  • "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 fiance 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."
  • "The complete and unabridged version of Austen's Persuasion, first published in 1818, now read by Anna Massey."@en
  • "Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others."
  • "Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others."@en
  • "This novel captures the affectations of class-conscious eighteenth-century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries. It is the story of the Bennet family and the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring."@en
  • "'Persuasion' is a tale of love and marriage, told with irony and insight. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth's reunion, after the passage of irrecoverable years of their youth, forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart."@en
  • "Anne Elliot has fallen in love with a man below her in social standing, so she is forced to give him up; until, years later, he returns a gentleman and Anne begins to wonder if it is too late to rekindle their love."
  • "Jane Austen's Persuasion focuses on the regret and loneliness of Anne Elliot, who had rejected a proposal of marriage upon advice of a dear friend, from the one man she truly loved. The story takes place less than a decade after the proposal, following her simultaneous anticipation and dread of the rejected lover's return to the community. She struggles between the validity of the reasons for the old rejection and the flittering hope that their love had persevered."
  • "When the personable Captain Wentworth reappears in Anne Elliot's life several years after she had been persuaded to break off their engagement, he makes no secret of his angry indignation but, as they come to know each other again, their feelings are rekindled. There are many obstacles in their path, however, amongst them Anne's egotistical, snobbish father, Sir Walter and his heir, the duplicitous Wiliam Elliot. Jane Austen's last completed novel sees her usual deft social comedy threaded with a more serious note. A love story of second chances and reconciliation, Janet Suzman expresses both wit and tenderness in this BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour reading."
  • "When the personable Captain Wentworth reappears in Anne Elliot's life several years after she had been persuaded to break off their engagement, he makes no secret of his angry indignation but, as they come to know each other again, their feelings are rekindled. There are many obstacles in their path, however, amongst them Anne's egotistical, snobbish father, Sir Walter and his heir, the duplicitous Wiliam Elliot. Jane Austen's last completed novel sees her usual deft social comedy threaded with a more serious note. A love story of second chances and reconciliation, Janet Suzman expresses both wit and tenderness in this BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour reading."@en
  • "A couple meets again seven years after their engagement ended."@en
  • "Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth have met and separated years before. Their reunion, after the passage of the irrecoverable years of their youth, forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart. The characters who embody those values are the subjects of some of the most withering satire that Jane Austen ever wrote."
  • "Anne Elliot has brought her misfortunes upon herself. Her mistaken decision to break her engagement with Captain Wentworth-- to which she was persuaded by a dear friend of the family, Lady Russell-- let worldly prudence outweigh love. Persuasion takes up the story over seven years later, with the reappearance of Wentworth, in what is Jane Austen's most mature, profound and delicate comedy of love and marriage."@en
  • "Als een vrouw in het 19e eeuwse Engeland na vele jaren haar vroegere verloofde weer ontmoet, blijken beider gevoelens onveranderd."
  • "The story of what happens when a woman meets a man she was engaged to in the past."@en
  • "The story of Anne Elliot, a woman who gets a second chance. As a teenager she becomes engaged to a man who seems perfect for her, Frederick Wentworth. But she is persuaded to break the engagement by her friend Lady Russell, who believes that Frederick is too poor to be a suitable match. The episode plunges Anne into a period of bleak disappointment. Eight years later, Frederick returns from the Napoleonic Wars flushed with success. Anne's circumstances have also changed--her father's spendthrift ways mean he has been forced to lease the family home to a naval family. Will Anne and Frederick rediscover their love? Can their changed fortunes inhibit their feelings? Persuasion is a story of self-knowledge and personal regeneration, of social change and emotional politics."@en
  • ""Anne Elliot passes up an opportunity for happiness when she declines a match in marriage in hopes of bettering her position. Beauty fades as seven years pass, when her former love returns a wealthier man. Anne finds herself slighted and all traces of their former intimacy gone. Mishaps and mischief mount as the pair tempt fate in this comic story of love"--Container."@en
  • "The last novel completed by Jane Austen before her death, Persuasion is often thought to reflect on the author's own lost love. 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 fianc? 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."@en
  • "Anne Elliot with all her claims of birth, beauty and mind, is persuaded not to throw herself away at nineteen on Captain Frederick Wentworth."
  • "Anne Elliot with all her claims of birth, beauty and mind, is persuaded not to throw herself away at nineteen on Captain Frederick Wentworth."@en
  • "At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel."
  • "When pretty nineteen-year-old Anne Elliott becomes engaged to handsome Frederick Wentworth, she could not be more in love. But Anne's best friend, Lady Russell, is sure that it would be disastrous for her to marry a penniless naval officer, and persuades her to jilt Wentworth and wait for a better match. Eight years later, Anne is still a spinster. Her looks are fading, and she bitterly regrets giving up the love of her life. When he reappears, now a wealthy captain, she realises that her feelings for him have never changed: but can he ever forgive her for rejecting him?"
  • "When pretty nineteen-year-old Anne Elliott becomes engaged to handsome Frederick Wentworth, she could not be more in love. But Anne's best friend, Lady Russell, is sure that it would be disastrous for her to marry a penniless naval officer, and persuades her to jilt Wentworth and wait for a better match. Eight years later, Anne is still a spinster. Her looks are fading, and she bitterly regrets giving up the love of her life. When he reappears, now a wealthy captain, she realises that her feelings for him have never changed: but can he ever forgive her for rejecting him?"@en
  • "Persuasion is Jane Austen's last novel. Like her earlier works it is a tale of love and marriage, told with irony and insight. Anne Elliot, the gentle second daughter of a pompous baronet, thought that her chance of marital happiness had passed with the breaking of her engagement to a young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. But they are drawn back into the same sphere and their love rekindles."@en
  • "Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later, his circumstances much improved."@en
  • "Anne Elliott had been persuaded to break her engagement to Captain Wentworth eight years ago. Now having made his fortune he has returned in search of a wife."
  • "Set against the rarefied sensibilities of upper class England of Austen's day, the love story is both a satire upon class values and differences, and an engaging novel."@en
  • "The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author's own lost love. The book's heroine, Anne Elliot, encounters Frederick Wentworth, the man to whom she was once engaged when he was a young naval officer. Now a captain, Wentworth is courting the rash young Louisa Musgrove. The happy ending is not one in which Austen would ever play a part."@en
  • "The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author's own lost love. The book's heroine, Anne Elliot, encounters Frederick Wentworth, the man to whom she was once engaged when he was a young naval officer. Now a captain, Wentworth is courting the rash young Louisa Musgrove. The happy ending is not one in which Austen would ever play a part."
  • "Romance. The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author's own lost love. The book's heroine, Anne Elliot, encounters Frederick Wentworth, the man to whom she was once engaged when he was a young naval officer. Now a captain, Wentworth is courting the rash young Louisa Musgrove. The happy ending is not one in which Austen would ever play a part."@en
  • "Romance. The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author's own lost love. The book's heroine, Anne Elliot, encounters Frederick Wentworth, the man to whom she was once engaged when he was a young naval officer. Now a captain, Wentworth is courting the rash young Louisa Musgrove. The happy ending is not one in which Austen would ever play a part."
  • "Eight years ago, Anne Eliot was persuaded to throw off her fiancé 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 unrequited love for him and her remorse for not having married him."@en
  • "Anne Elluiott has been persuaded to break off her engagement, but meets Wentworth again afer some time, and the story is concerned with the gradual revival of his passiopn for her."
  • "Anne Elliot has been persuaded to break off her engagement, but meets Wentworth again after some time, and the story is concerned with the gradual revival of his passion for her."@en
  • "Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her family."
  • "Persuasion is the tale of the romance between the pretty and friendly younger daughter of Sir Walter Elliot and the novel's hero, Captain Wentworth. In spite of social barriers and the rival Musgrove sisters Anne pursues the Captain's affections having once turned him down as a spouse. Persuasion was Austen's final completed novel and was written between 1815 and 1816."@en
  • "Selected as one of 2001's Best Audiobooks, Boston Sunday Globe, Los Angeles Times. Anne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first and only love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. When their paths finally cross again, Anne finds herself slighted and all traces of their former intimacy gone."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY. The last novel completed by Jane Austen before her death, Persuasion is often thought to reflect on the author's own lost love. 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 fianc ÌŒeight 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."
  • "The story of a second chance, the reawakening of love between Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, whom eight years earlier she had been persuaded not to marry, due to his lowly station in life."@en
  • "The story of the love between upper-class Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth, who must earn his fortune. Set against the rarified sensibilities of the upper-class England of Austen's day, the novel is both a satire upon class values and differences, and an engaging story."@en
  • "The final novel by the acclaimed writer places heroine Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity and deep emotion, against the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England."@en
  • "Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliott, who were once engaged, are thrown together again."
  • "Anne Elliot has brought her misfortunes upon herself. Her mistaken decision to break her engagement with Captain Wentworth, to which she was persuaded by a dear friend of the family, Lady Russell, let worldly prudence outweigh love. Persuasion takes up the story over seven years later, with the reappearance of Wentworth, in what is Jane Austen's most mature, profound and delicate comedy of love and marriage."@en
  • "Anne Elliot is thrown back into the company of Captain Wentworth, a past love. Things didn't work out the last time they met, so it looks like it might be another bumpy ride in store for the pair ... Partly autobiographical, Persuasion possesses a gentle sense of humour, and has rather a more serious tone than most of Austen's other works. Anne Eliot is reunited with Captain Wentworth, a past beau, and the two embark upon a series of mishaps and misunderstandings whilst harbouring a little more than friendship for each other ... can they ever get their acts together and admit how they really feel, or is it too late?"@en
  • ""Anne Elliot has brought her misfortunes upon herself. Her mistaken decision to break her engagement with Captain Wentworth -- to which she was persuaded by a dear friend of the family, Lady Russell -- let worldly prudence outweigh love. 'Persuasion' takes up the story over seven years later, with the reappearance of Wentworth, in what is Jane Austen's most mature, profound and delicate comedy of love and marriage"--Container."@en
  • "Persuasion is Jane Austen's last novel. Like her earlier works it is a tale of love and marriage, told with irony and insight."@en
  • "Unabridged."@en
  • "Anne Elliot has brought her misfortunes upon herself. Her mistaken decision to break her engagement with Captain Wentworth -- to which she was persuaded by a dear friend of the family, Lady Russell -- let worldly prudence outweigh love. 'Persuasion' takes up the story over seven years later, with the reappearance of Wentworth, in what is Jane Austen's most mature, profound and delicate comedy of love and marriage."@en
  • "After the man whose proposal she had rejected returns from his long military tour at sea, Anne Elliot is forced to face the decision she had made eight years before, along with the man she has never stopped loving, in Jane Austen's final novel."
  • "After the man whose proposal she had rejected returns from his long military tour at sea, Anne Elliot is forced to face the decision she had made eight years before, along with the man she has never stopped loving, in Jane Austen's final novel."@en
  • "The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth."

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