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A review by literarywreck
Persuasion by Jane Austen
4.0
UPDATE: 4 stars for the fabulous class commentary & subtle (and sometimes not-so) irony.
Here are some of my favorite quotes:
“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman!—he ought not—he does not.”
“We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.”
“Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms: how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale—serving the office of High Sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II., with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages…”
First thoughts:
3.5-4 stars. Beautiful prose. Not my favorite of her novels, though.
Here are some of my favorite quotes:
“A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman!—he ought not—he does not.”
“We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.”
“Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms: how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale—serving the office of High Sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II., with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages…”
First thoughts:
3.5-4 stars. Beautiful prose. Not my favorite of her novels, though.