EPISODE · Jul 10, 2021 · 3 MIN
Persuasion by Jane Austen
from Access Unmissable Full Trial Audiobooks in Romance, Mystery · host Reinhold Wyman
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/524491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Persuasion Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Madame Tusk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 10, 2021 Genres: Mystery Publisher's 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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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/524491 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Persuasion Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Madame Tusk Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: July 10, 2021 Genres: Mystery Publisher's 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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