Persuasion

A podcast by Jane Austen

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28 Episodes

  1. Persuasion - Chapter 24

    Published: 8/3/2023

  2. Persuasion - Chapter 23, Part 2

    Published: 8/3/2023

  3. Persuasion - Chapter 23, Part 1

    Published: 8/3/2023

  4. Persuasion - Chapter 22, Part 2

    Published: 8/3/2023

  5. Persuasion - Chapter 22, Part 1

    Published: 8/3/2023

  6. Persuasion - Chapter 21, Part 2

    Published: 8/3/2023

  7. Persuasion - Chapter 21, Part 1

    Published: 8/3/2023

  8. Persuasion - Chapter 20

    Published: 8/3/2023

  9. Persuasion - Chapter 19

    Published: 8/3/2023

  10. Persuasion - Chapter 18

    Published: 8/3/2023

  11. Persuasion - Chapter 17

    Published: 8/3/2023

  12. Persuasion - Chapter 16

    Published: 8/3/2023

  13. Persuasion - Chapter 15

    Published: 8/3/2023

  14. Persuasion - Chapter 14

    Published: 8/3/2023

  15. Persuasion - Chapter 13

    Published: 8/3/2023

  16. Persuasion - Chapter 12, Part 2

    Published: 8/3/2023

  17. Persuasion - Chapter 12, Part 1

    Published: 8/3/2023

  18. Persuasion - Chapter 11

    Published: 8/3/2023

  19. Persuasion - Chapter 10

    Published: 8/3/2023

  20. Persuasion - Chapter 09

    Published: 8/3/2023

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Of all Jane Austen’s great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving.Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish Sir Walter Elliot, is woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen she fell in love with—and was engaged to—a naval officer, the fearless and headstrong Captain Wentworth. But the young man had no fortune, and Anne allowed herself to be persuaded to give him up.Now, eight years later, Wentworth has returned to the neighborhood, a rich man and still unwed. Anne’s never-diminished love is muffled by her pride, and he seems cold and unforgiving.What happens as the two are thrown together in the social world of Bath—and as an eager new suitor appears for Anne—is touchingly and wittily told in Persuasion, a masterpiece that is also one of the most entrancing novels in the English language.