Persuasion -

Jane Austen

Oxford University Press

2004

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780192802637

Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future.
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances.
Jane Austen's last completed novel features a heroine much older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and presents a more intimate and sober tale of a love found long after such happiness had been deemed hopeless. This edition includes an appendix giving the original ending of Persuasion.

Resenhas (63)

4 (Muito bom)

O último livro da minha releitura da obra de Jane Austen, também o último livro que li no meu primeiro encontro com a autora, e o último livro terminado por ela.
É um livro mais maduro, não só por ter ma heroína bem mais velha, mas por ter uma história focada no arrependimento, no amadurecimento, no olhar para o passado.
Wentworth é um verdadeiro herói e talvez o melhor personagem desse livro, ele sofreu e não esconde, tenta machucar a quem o machucou, mas perdoa, se arrepende, é humano.