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  • 100 of 100 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 dawnymarie

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    5 Stars Persuasion Review with images 12/06/2012
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages It's an Austen classic - it was a pleasure to read

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Took a few pages to adjust to the sentence structure

    Persuasion - Jane Austin Easily enticed to read this one… I have read Pride and Prejudice and; of course, I loved it. This prompted me to read another of Jane Austen’s works and after reading positive reviews I decided on this one. Easy to get hold of, as it is considered to be a classic, I purchased and anticipated a good read. Synopsis… The middle sister of three is Anne Elliot, daughter of Sir Elliot who considers himself of some importance in society. Much overlooked since her beloved mother died, Anne, is deemed a no hoper in the marriage stakes and her father devotes all of his time and ... more
  • 35 of 35 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 Absinthe_Fairy

    Member since 03/01/2011

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    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Absorbing story

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not as humorous as Austen's earlier work

    From Jane Austen's first full-length novel to her last: after reviewing Northanger Abbey, I've moved on to Persuasion. Both novels were published together after Austen's death in 1818, but whereas Northanger Abbey had been completed in 1798, Persuasion had been finished only two years before, in 1816. It is more subdued than Austen's previous novels, particularly the youthful Northanger Abbey (especially as both are set partly in Bath), but it is still a very enjoyable novel. Persuasion tells the story of 27-year-old Anne Elliot, daughter of the vain Sir Walter Elliot, and sister to the ... more
  • 69 of 69 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    shoppingpenguin

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages thought provoking, describes character well, good story line

    Disadvantages Disadvantages some people may not feel themes as relevant in current lifestyles

    I devoured “Pride & Prejudice” (P&P) and “Sense & Sensibility” (S&S) two Summers ago, and was eager to read more of Jane Austen. I bought “Persuasion” shortly after, but decided not to start reading it due to a change in my life circumstances. The Jane Austen books had changed my views on romance too much; and not necessarily in a positive manner. The men in my life became the men described in the books. I was sure that one of my ex’s was Mr Darcy.... So I put off reading Persuasion; Jane Austen books were very enjoyable to read, but caused more emotional turmoil than literary pleasure. Two ... more
  • 31 of 31 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Schmutzie

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Best love story in fiction

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    One September, more years ago than I want to remember, I had just joined the lower sixth, agog to start on my A-level English texts.I was lucky enough to have a grandpa who, though just a very humble working class man who'd had virtually no education at all, believed passionately in education for women. He had retired early from his factory job because of ill health, and began to teach me to read as I learned to talk, using the Rupert stories.I can't remember not being able to read anything, though I didn't understand a lot of it for some time.I quickly developed a lifelong love for the ... more
  • 30 of 30 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    sheri3004

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Another Austen masterpiece

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    “Persuasion”, one of six completed novels by Jane Austen, though written in 1815-16, was not published until 1818, a year after its author’s death at the age of forty-one. The story centres on the Elliot family: Sir Walter and his three daughters. Sir Walter, a widower, is a vain, snobbish individual whose main – indeed, only – reading matter is the entry concerning himself in the Baronetage. His haughty, unmarried eldest daughter, Elizabeth, being “very like himself” is something of a kindred spirit – however, his two other children are regarded ... more
  • 54 of 54 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Amy69

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages characters, narrative, plot development

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Nothing!

    I am a huge fan of the life of Miss Jane Austen. However, her work is a little hit and miss with me. I seem to love half of what she's written, and really dislike the other half. This is quite bizarre as usually I love basically anything that is from the early nineteenth-century. The third Austen novel I read was Persuasion, which I can honestly say is one of my favourites of hers. The realist novel, set in Bath, tells the story of Anne Elliot and her love interest. Typically, she falls in love with a man whom her family basically forbid her to see. Years later, she re-encounters this love ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    corman

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    The BBC did an adaptation of this book a few years ago starring Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds which is really good if you ever get the chance to watch it. The central character Anne Elliot at first appears to be a weak one, always bowing to other's opinions on what to do and how to act. Although her family is at face value a wealthy one her father and sister have managed to fritter away most of the fortune since her mother's death years previously. A close family friend has been the only true guardian she has had since her mother's death, and has had a particularly strong influence in her life ... more
  • 16 of 17 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    angelatawn

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Unputdownable

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too short!!

    I discovered this book one bleak afternoon in the school library during my A' Level year. A new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice by the BBC had increased my interest in Jane Austen and pushed me to read all of her work, including her unfinished novels. Pride and Prejudice seems to have gained all the glory due to the numerous adaptation and seems to have eclipsed the slower paced and gentler novel that is Persuasion. Persuasion is by far and away the best romance I have ever read, and a year does not go by without re-reading this wonderful story. It is a true romantic story in that the ... more
  • 2 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Stephixxx2

    4 Stars Persuasion 31/05/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Character developement on the level of Anne is compelling

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Character and story developement elsewhere is lacking

    Persuasion is indeed a fantastic book, but as one of her later novels it lacks the emotions and detail to the story that earlier novels such as Pride and Prejudice have had. Anne, the stories heroine is developed thoroughly throughout the novel and the other charaters are seen as important depending on their situation and effect on Anne. Anne is, as Jane Austen herself perfect "A heroine too perfect even for me." Unlike in other novels Anne does not change, does not realise that she has done wrongs as has her hero, she continues to maintain that she was in the right over the situation with ... more
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