Persuasion
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Publisher Description
This DigiSync Book is a new audio / ebook format – read and listen separately or do both at the same time. High quality readings and performances synced word for word with classic texts. Simple to navigate, with numbered pages and easy book marking and searching.
Persuasion, by Jane Austen, was recorded by Naxos Audio. This DigiSync Book edition was prepared by DigiSync Books Ltd.
Anne Elliot is persuaded to break off her engagement to naval captain Frederick Wentworth, a man with no status or fortune. Eight years later she finds herself at the age of 27 – no longer young and with few romantic prospects. But when Wentworth returns from the Napoleonic wars, having made his fortune, she finds herself filled with thoughts of what might have been and has to overcome rumours of her engagement to her wealthy cousin in order to prove her affections.
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Stevenson has read all of Austen's novels for audiobook, in abridged or unabridged versions, and her experience shows in this delightful production. Though dominated by the intelligent, sweet voice of Anne Elliot the least favored but most worthy of three daughters in a family with an old name but declining fortunes Stevenson provides other characters with memorable voices as well. She reads Anne's haughty father's lines with a mixture of stuffiness and bluster, and Anne's sisters are portrayed with a hilariously flighty, breathy register that makes Austen's contempt for them palpable. Anne's voice is mostly measured and reasonable an expression of her strong mind and spirit but Stevenson imbues her speech with wonderful shades of passion as Anne is reacquainted with Capt. Wentworth, whom she has continued to love despite being forced, years before, to reject him over status issues. Listening to Stevenson, as Anne, describe a sudden encounter with Wentworth, one hardly needs Austen's description of how Anne grows faint Stevenson's perfectly judged and deeply felt reading has already shown that she must have. Even those who have read Austen's novels will find themselves loving this book all over again with Stevenson's evocative rendition ringing richly in their ears.
