NovelRegency · 1817Study guide · no full textGentle

Persuasion

Austen's most autumnal book: quiet, aching, full of glances and letters. Its heroine is the one who was persuaded to give up her happiness — and is still unsure the advice was wrong.

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Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

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Class — how other works handle it →Love — how other works handle it →Memory — how other works handle it →

Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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