Persuasion
Persuasion, by Jane Austen, originally published posthumously in 1818, audiobook, 2001, read by Flo Gibson, Recorded Books, LLC, Prince Frederick, MD I guess I just didn’t get this book. To me it was a redefinition of the word, “dithering.” The heroine, Ann Elliott, is in love with a naval officer, Captain Wentworth, and wants to marry him. Unfortunately, a family friend intervenes and puts the kibosh on the marriage. She encounters Captain Wentworth seven years later and, after many chapters of not much happening, he expresses his love of her again. They become happily engaged. End of story. This book doesn’t seem to create the same level of tension between two would-be lovers that Pride and Prejudice does. I suspect that Jane Austen was failing in her later years to come up with something fresh and original. I don’t feel that she accomplished that in this, her last, novel.
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