Thursday, December 2, 2021

Books from the Backlog - Persuasion


Today I'm linking up with Carole from Carole's Random Life of Books for Books from the Backlog.  I really enjoy the chance to feature a book that's been hiding in the piles of books for far too long!




Blurb:  Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?

Why It Needs to Come Off the Shelf:  This one probably won't be picked up until into next year but I do have  a goal to read more Austen and this one seems to be the favorite of so many that I'm really looking forward to it.

9 comments:

  1. I think this is the only Jane Austen I read. I should read more.

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  2. This is one of the Austen books I haven't yet read. I hope you enjoy it.

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  3. I hope that you enjoy it. I don't tend to get along with most classics.

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  4. I did read this one in recent years! I am reading P&P or I should say its sitting there partially started. And now I want to read Emma. Will probably listen.

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  5. I have tried and tried to find an Austen book I would like and have failed every time. 😛

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