Persuasion (Unabridged)
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3.4 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Jane Austen was born in 1775 and died unmarried in her early forties. The daughter of a rector, she lived a comfortable upper middle-class life which was made eventful only be her active imagination.
In Persuasion, the book's heroine, Ann Elliot, was earlier engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a young navel officer, who now has become a captain. Anne is 27, and the early bloom of youth is past, when she and Captain Wentworth are thrown together again.
This book is often thought to be the story of Jane Austen's own lost love. In it, she seems mellowed and more philosophical, touched perhaps by the sentiment of a story in which she saw herself as the heroine but in whose happy outcome she has a premonition that she would never play a part.
Customer Reviews
Wonderfully Narrated
I enjoyed this audiobook. The narration was very well done by the voice actress. I checked out samples of several other versions of this book before choosing this one. The narrator paced herself well, her accent maintains the setting and time of the story in my mind, and the texture and tone of her voice are soothing. Her voice matches my mental image of the main character perfectly. I wish she could’ve done different accents and tones for the other characters, but it was still a lovely narration. My only other complaint was the quality of the recording. There seemed to be other speakers in the background that a producer tried to edit out. The narrator’s volume and clarity also go on and out with her sounding clearest towards the end of the book. As for the story itself, Ann is an inspiring character who I continued to root for through the whole tale. She was clearly more mature, more humble, and more sensible than most of the other characters. Wentworth I wanted to kick so he could get up and speak. I was relieved when he finally wrote and gave her that letter (something he easily could’ve done several chapters sooner), but at least he got around to it in the end. Austin’s stories have a tendency to show readers/audiences that not every girl in ye olden times was an airheaded shrinking violet and I’m glad to read/hear it every time. I hope to find more Austen stories read by the same voice actress and with just as engaging a plot.