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  • Persuasion

  • By: Jane Austen
  • Narrated by: Madame Tusk
  • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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By: Jane Austen
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Summary

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 friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?

Jane Austen once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square. Readers of Persuasion will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final finished work.
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Bad quality recording

The narrator does an admirable job, but I had to get used to the American accent which is very unusual for a Jane Austen novel. There is background noise like dogs barking, children talking and coughing - this is not a professional recording.

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