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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-18 05:07:51.
(Language: English)
   
The story is very typical Jane Austen. There's always the big reveal -- each puzzle falling into place before the principal characters come together. Ohhh...but the most memorable part of the book is Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne Elliot. If for that letter alone, I'll overlook the somewhat rush rush storytelling done to wrap up the story. In spite of that, it is still an enjoyable read. After all, this is a Jane Austen novel we are talking about.my first attempt again with a classic, after "a tale of two cities" about....10 years ago!! gAAAAAd! hope austen does not disappoint. after all, the film adaptations are quite enjoyable. So far, so good. Interesting read...wonder why Austen was never a book report back in high school. 
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-10-02 09:53:35.
(Language: English)
better than expected. :)
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-07-02 01:59:04.
(Language: English)
Not really my cup of tea. An interesting social commentary on Regency life but the Brontes are much more powerful
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-01-10 01:12:14.
(Language: English)
It's just beautiful - a truly timeless classic that you can be completely absorbed in every time you read it.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-18 12:07:14.
(Language: English)
Beautiful story about a Victorian era, self-imposed Cinderella and how she manages with a lost love returning to her midst. I dare say it's even better than Pride and Prejudice, but it has a more somber, mature tone to it. The supporting characters in the book are well drawn.If you wanna go the modern route and watch a movie rendition, watch the one with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds...it'll give you a great, albeit inaccurate, Cliff's Notes version of the book. But the spirit definitely holds to the written word. (Avoid watching the new Masterpiece version that came out earlier this year. That one sucked.) Then...read the book because Austen's words are even more intense than what you saw. Well, what do I know...I read the book first.
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-03-23 12:53:33.
(Language: English)
The first time that I read this book I found it very hard to get into. However, after reading it a second time I came to love it. The love that Anne and Captain Wentworth must have for each other is truly amazing. I am jealous of the love that is implied. I wish for nothing less than a love like that. Absolutely amazing writing. It inspires my own creative nature.
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Laura posted a review at 2012-01-12 11:20:17.
(Language: English)
As usual, awesome book by Jane Austen!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-09 06:42:26.
(Language: English)
I've read this book so many times I can't even remember how many. This is the best book by my favorite author. Anne is the ultimate selfless character in the string of austen heroines. The sad tale of a women who was persuaded not to marry the man of her dreams based on his income. 8 years later he comes back even better than before and with a small fortune, she is tested again and again by her undying love which she must keep a secret, as well as being faced with eveyone else's secrets. This is an unforgettable classic and the crowning work of austen. You must read it!
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Katia posted a review at 2011-06-02 11:14:15.
(Language: English)
Not Austen as it best but, oh well! Who would not love it?
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-27 07:53:52.
(Language: English)
Jane Austen, raising standards with every book I read. Modern romance novels, full of double entendre's and sexual tension have nothing on the emotional and blissful agony of reading Persuasion. Jane Austen successfully captures both how a woman would feel and what she hopes to hear from the male in question. Any female in want of romance can only be disappointed at the thought that modern men are so unlike Fredrick Wentworth. That their situation does not mirror that of these fictional romances and that modern man is quick to lose interest in a lost love. One can only hope that their story, their romance novel has a fraction of that which Jane Austen describes.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-04 12:24:15.
(Language: English)
When it comes to a great author like Jane Austen, it is hard to pick your favourite. Some of her novels are quite different to her others, and Persuasion surely is one of them. I have never read an Austen novel as a teen or young adult and so have always judged from the adult point of view. Maybe that's the reason why Persuasion is my favourite. Jane Austen has always been critizised because she writes about people of a certain social status only. Yes, she does, and that's good. Because that was about the kind of people she knew, the kind of world she lived in. And that's why her novels are so great. She knows what she's writing about. What I like most in Persuasion is the way she captured the problems women were facing at the time. Especially the part where she explains to Captain Harville the difference between men's and women's feelings and their way of living. I thought she managed to come across so well, you just could feel her thoughts. And nobody ever said that her novels were historical ones. They are, but only of the small world she lived in and knew. Pride & Prejudice is much more lively, Emma as well, and I love both of them. But if I was allowed to take one of Jane Austen's books only to a desert island, Persuasion it would be.
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Stephanie posted a review at 2010-01-05 09:18:29.
(Language: English)
My favorite Austen novel... and yes I've read Pride and Prejudice. What this book lacks in wit and charming drawing room scenes, it makes up for in a tortured mature prose, strong lead characters, and an achingly beautiful love story built on years of waiting and wanting. It's wonderful to watch Anne Elliot turn from mouse to lion as the dashing Captain Wentworth struggles with his feelings for her... Five out of five stars. A fitting final work for Austen's unmatched career. Oh...for film buffs...the 1995 film version is the only film adaptation that captures the poignancy of the text. The 2007 version tries and fails miserably.
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Maria Magdalena posted a review at 2013-01-13 06:48:42.
(Language: English)
Primera novela de Jane Austen que leo, esta obra la comenzó a escribir en 1815, pero fue publicada en 1818 posterior a su muerte. me gustó bastante a mi parecer se puede apreciar la historia desde dos puntos de vista, lo netamente romantico de la historia de Ana Elliot ... y Federico Wentworth o bien apreciar la crítica que deja plasamada de la sociedad de aquella época, que si bien es cierto a pesar de los años todavía se manifiesta en la actualidad.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-08-25 07:41:10.
(Language: English)
i am overwhelmed by the narratives of this book. it's been awhile since i've actually READ a jane austen book and just as people say, she is very contemporary in her writing and attitude. her characters speak louder than words and they settle under your skin (and heart) with warmth. her heroines are like those of our own lives: independent, thinking of doing correct and honorable things, yet things go awry. austen's prose make indentation in our every day lives and with so much humor and wit. recommended for the bleeding hearts only!
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A Reader posted a review at 2011-01-18 01:54:19.
(Language: English)
a book I can read anywhere n everywhere :) just luv it
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-01-24 02:00:58.
(Language: Spanish)
antes de leer este libro hay que hacerse a la idea de los últimos años de la vida de Jane Austen. Es un libro tremendamente triste sobre una chica que es persuadida cuando es joven de que no se case con un capitan de la marina porque no es suficiente para ella y cuando ya tiene 29 años (está para vestir santos) lo reencuentra y rememora sentimientos. La chica no es considerada por nadie en cuanto a opinión y demás y la ignora todo el mundo excepto cuando la necesitan. Un 9, me llegó al alma, será que estoy sensible por la edad.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-02-10 02:39:01.
(Language: English)
Like all of her novels, Jane Austen's PERSUASION is essentially a comedy of manners--a work in which the characters must negotiate a complex code of conduct in order to survive, much less achieve their ends. And in a certain sense the novel is indicative of Austen's great talent, razor sharp, laced with irony and wit, and remarkably phrased. And yet PERSUASION is quite unlike Austen's other novels in the story it tells.To tell the truth the chapter before the last was my favorite.This novel was the last one that Austen wrote before she died. It is a more mature novel, dealing with many issues not found in Austen's previous novels. One reason why people find faults with the book is that Anne Elliot, the heroine, is not as spunky or witty as an Elizabeth Bennett or an Emma Woodhouse. There is not so much wit flowing in the dialogue between characters, or even dialogue in general. But these differences between the novels make this one so unique.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-08 08:29:40.
(Language: English)
More than seven years prior to the events in the novel, Anne Elliot fell in love with a handsome and ambitious, but poor, young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots, led by Sir Walter, Anne's father and lord of the family estate, were dissatisfied with her choice. Feeling that he was not distinguished enough for their family they persuade Anne not to marry him. Seven years later he returns and she has a reawakening. This is my favorite next to Pride and Prejudice. I think I like it because Anne is more mature than the characters in the other books. I love how she gets a 2nd chance at love.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-02-03 12:17:10.
(Language: English)
This is my favorite book of all time. I believe with Anne Elliot that Jane Austen was able to create her best heroine. A woman of 27 who was good, compassionate, and intelligent. However, at the same time has faults as well. She regrets refusing the proposal of Frederick Wentworth, who at the time was a lowly sailor by the persuasion of a family friend. Now her vain father and sister have mismanaged their estate dreadfully and they have to sublet it. Oddly enough Wentworth's sister and her admiral husband let the house. Cpt. Wentworth comes back as a weathy sailor and is determined to marry anyone but Anne. Their interactions, calamities that befall those around them, and introspection make this novel Jane Austen's not only most reflective novel, but one of her most compelling.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-10-09 06:29:39.
(Language: English)
It was a brilliant read. Unlike Jane's other books this one seemed more melancholy and subdued no real outlandish characters like your Mrs Bennett's or Mr Collins's it was a clean story with a very good message that good things came to those who wait! and not to be persuaded by others judgements when your own heart is telling you the opposite!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-07 07:59:09.
(Language: English)
One of my all time favourites - gives you a different perspective to think about every time you read it. Excellent portrayal of how men and women view love at the second last chapter - still modern and refreshing to this day! Great portrayal of individual characters especially the frivolity and ridiculous inconsistencies of Mary Musgrove - satirical yet endearingly funny. Of course, great to have a "true love conquers all" ending - which this book is the epitome of such in the Jane Austen classics. And indeed, Captain Wentworth's love letter at the end is always a personal favourite.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-09 11:39:36.
(Language: English)
Best Quote:"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant." - Jane Austen, Persuasion
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sneha posted a review at 2011-09-22 10:56:05.
(Language: English)
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-29 04:35:49.
(Language: English)
Hard to get into but persist its worth it. As always the hero and the heroine end up together in the end but excellent charactors throughtout and nice to see the people of the day having faults in true Austen style. I was struggling to get through ths one till I read some of the other reveiws and then decided to give it another go. I'm really glad I did. A much more seriouse Jane Austin (maybe she knew it would be her last?!) Excellent indepth main characters. Would have loved however to have seen her cousing Mr Elliot come to some sort of social fall and a bit more closure on some of the other charactors. Had a bit of a feeling after such a long story that the end was a little rushed. Well worth the read however
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-08-09 03:53:49.
(Language: English)
Maybe it is because I had already read that this, Jane Austen's last book, was a bit different to the others in terms of what could be described as its rawness and subject matter, but I found "Persuasion" to be a more emotive read in which I wished more for the happy conclusion for the characters than to be entertained by the twists and turns that get us there. Putting aside what can be described as the "standard" kind of JA characters (the silly and vacuous family members, the initially alluring gentleman that turns out to be a rogue, the lover at first spurned who then gets his girl) and the offputting Georgian social snobbery and sense of distinction (which is even exhibited by the less socially-driven characters), I found myself sensing an underlying sadness or melancholy, and sincerity, that might have been hidden, or not even present, in her other books. I also see "Persuasion" also a bit more in terms of Georgian romantic works, with deep felt passions and interactions with nature. But these passions are also experienced within the confines of upper class society and self-censureship: the result being an almost unbearable (in the good sense), sincere and quietly-spoken resolution of past regrets for the better, in the face of living a lifetime with a broken heart.
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