Jane Austen'S Persuasion [Audiobook] download free by John Wiltshire
- Listen audiobook: Jane Austen'S Persuasion
- Author: John Wiltshire
- Release date: 2018/4/8
- Publisher: CONNELL GUIDES
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Teaching Resources and Education
- ISBN: 9781911187318
- Rating: 9.16 of 10
- Votes: 599
- Review by: Tiffany Forney
- Review rating: 9.61 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/19
- Duration: 1H29M47S in 256 kbps (23.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, AIFF, AAC, WMA, MP3, OGG, MPEG4, WAV (compression TZO, ZIP, RAR, LZMA, TAR.7Z, RPM)
- Total pages original book: 116
- Includes a PDF summary of 9 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 7M32S (1.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Persuasion is now probably the favourite Austen book after Pride and Prejudice. It tells the story of a life that might have been wasted, but is redeemed by love. It is a story by anyone who believes in second chances, or, in Tony Tanner's words 'to anyone who has experienced the sense of an irreparably ruined owing to an irrevocable mistaken decision'. While Pride and Prejudice was written when Austen was a young, marriageable woman, Persuasion was written when she was in her forties, and it features a heroine who, at twenty-seven, could in those days be destined, like Austen herself, to life as a spinster. As John Wiltshire, one of the best modern critics of Austen shows in this guide, the atmosphere of the two books is quite different, like the social world they depict - one 'light and bright and sparkling' as Jane Austen herself called it, the other more sombre, shadowed by several deaths, and sometimes gentle and sometimes savage in its irony. But Persuasion has endeared itself to readers because the romance it celebrates takes place so convincingly within a constricting and believable social world. It's a love story for adults. Anne Elliot is quiet, accommodating, kind and thoughtful, but Jane Austen avoids making her a picture of perfection by inviting the reader into her consciousness. We see that she is watchful of herself, critical of herself, aware of her own self-deceptions, but at the same time subject to impulses and longings, to the dreams and sexual desires we all share.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Study & Learning Skills: General, Literary Studies: General
- Download servers: FileServe, MEGA, FreakShare, Uploaded, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, KATCR, FileInvite. Compressed in TZO, ZIP, RAR, LZMA, TAR.7Z, RPM
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.73 USD
- Dimensions: 109x175x15mm
- Weight: 148g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: United Kingdom
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