Author: JANE AUSTEN

Title: Persuasion

Personal opinions

If you desire to plunge in an era where a stolen glance was so romantic you could have treasured it

for weeks, Austen’s books are the best to open. Persuasion is probably the shiest book the author

ever published, with a typical bitter-sweet taste that can be treasured if you have gone through a

similar experience yourself.

But altogether I would see the book as a harming one for too young readers – the Odysee is re-

writen in a modern (for that time) version – the sailor out at see, the mistress left behind as a result

of her own inconsistance, they reap their love despite better odds only to find themselves repaid for

their mindless passion with a marriage that would test the patience of the most ponderate cretures

on Earth. Together with the alarming tone of acknowledgement on the importance of others

oppinions (after being rejected with so much humour throught the book) I would see the whole

writing as a clear example of all the things that could go wrong in society if we don’t have the

courage to stand for our own feelings. The tone is that of bitter day-dreaming of a person that lost

everything in real life and tried to make up for it in writing.