Persuasion - Jane Austen
8.5/10
My lovely sister bought me a beautifully bound set of Jane Austen's novels for my birthday. I've read them all before, of course - at first reluctantly at school, and then more willingly since then. In fact - this time I wasn't reluctant, nor just willing - I was eager!
I can't give Persuasion 10/10 because I find the heroine, Anne Elliot, a bit of a prissy, pining missy, who never really seems to get round to doing anything. She just watches and waits for things to happen to her. She gets her man in the end though. Yet we know that Jane Austen can create more pro-active, interesting women like Fanny Morland and Elizabeth Bennett, and the other Bennett sisters, so she loses marks for Ms Elliot.
But it was a page-turner, and every sentence says so much in a Jane Austen novel, and we learn so much about society then and now so it gets a high score.
I do wish she was around to write some more books for me.
8.5/10
My lovely sister bought me a beautifully bound set of Jane Austen's novels for my birthday. I've read them all before, of course - at first reluctantly at school, and then more willingly since then. In fact - this time I wasn't reluctant, nor just willing - I was eager!
I can't give Persuasion 10/10 because I find the heroine, Anne Elliot, a bit of a prissy, pining missy, who never really seems to get round to doing anything. She just watches and waits for things to happen to her. She gets her man in the end though. Yet we know that Jane Austen can create more pro-active, interesting women like Fanny Morland and Elizabeth Bennett, and the other Bennett sisters, so she loses marks for Ms Elliot.
But it was a page-turner, and every sentence says so much in a Jane Austen novel, and we learn so much about society then and now so it gets a high score.
I do wish she was around to write some more books for me.
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