Persuasion (dramatic reading)

About this film

LibriVox recording of Persuasion (dramatic reading) by Jane Austen. Read in English by Elizabeth Klett; mb; TriciaG; Jason Mills; Bob Neufeld; Bill Mosley; Algy Pug; Elizabeth Barr; Beth Thomas; Max Körlinge; Amanda Friday; Kristin Gjerløw; ToddHW; Katalina Watt; Michele Eaton; Eden Rea-Hedrick; Charlotte Duckett; Libby Gohn; Maryanka; Loveday; Frances Brown; WoollyBee; Maria Kasper; Larry Wilson; Richard Friday More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter, Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement. Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kel…

Directors & creators

Jane Austen

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;love; marriage; social class

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