Persuasion
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (639 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400106869 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 303 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Alison Larkin Narrates the Jane Austen Classic Pride and Prejudice Beautifully - I Really Love Her Regency Songs at the End! Laura's Reviews Title: Pride and Prejudice with Songs from Regency EnglandAuthor: Jane AustenRead by: Alison LarkinPublisher: British Classic AudioLength: Approximately 13 hours and 29 minutesSource: Review Copy from author Alison Larkin - Thank-you!A perfect book for the Valentine’s Day holiday this month, Pride and Prejudice is one of the most romantic novels that have ever been written. What a delight it has been to listen . Progress? What Progress? Greg Cook It is universally acknowledged to be an endeavor fraught with peril to re-tell a famous author's successful classic novel. Nonetheless, Alexander McCall Smith has essayed to re-tell in modern terms Jane Austen's Emma. he succeedfor the most part. McCall Smith varies little from the structure of the original, though he does tinker with a few elements and compresses the action in the heart of the book. He with his usua. To top up with excellence It's a thing. I re read an Austen every year. To me Austen is the writer who took earlier forays into the writing of novels, from Don Quixote to her, and put in the floor – the basis of all good novels since. Her writing is an exemplar of how English is best written. Sentence length, use of punctuation, rhythm and tone make for reading out loud. Perhaps, in her day, that is how many people absorbed her stories.
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. The episode plunges Anne into a period of bleak disappointment. But she is persuaded to break the engagement off by her friend Lady Russell, who believes that he is too poor to be a suitable match. Jane Austen's final novel is the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who gets a second chance. Eight years later, Frederick returns from the Napoleonic Wars flushed with success. As a teenager she becomes engaged to a man who
The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. As always, Austen's storytelling is so confident, you can't help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey. . In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away