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PERSUASION by Jane Austen - FULL AudioBook | Greatest AudioBooks - Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December of that year (but dated 1818). *For FREE SPECIAL AUDIOBOOK OFFERS & MORE:* http://www.GreatestAudioBooks.com - SUBSCRIBE to Greatest Audio Books: http://www.youtube.com/GreatestAudioBooks - Become a FRIEND: http://www.Facebook.com/GreatestAudioBooks - BUY T-SHIRTS & MORE: http://bit.ly/1akteBP - Visit our WEBSITE: http://www.GreatestAudioBooks.com More About "Persuasion" by Jane Austen: Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805. Besides the theme of persuasion, the novel evokes other topics, such as the Royal Navy, in which two of Jane Austen's brothers ultimately rose to the rank of admiral. As in Northanger Abbey, the superficial social life of Bath—well known to Austen, who spent several relatively unhappy and unproductive years there—is portrayed extensively and serves as a setting for the second half of the book. In many respects, Persuasion marks a break with Austen's previous works, both in the more biting, even irritable satire directed at some of the novel's characters and in the regretful, resigned outlook of its otherwise admirable heroine, Anne Elliot, in the first part of the story. Against this is set the energy and appeal of the Royal Navy, which symbolises for Anne and the reader the possibility of a more outgoing, engaged, and fulfilling life, and it is this worldview which triumphs for the most part at the end of the novel. More About Jane Austen: Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism, biting irony and social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. Austen lived her entire life as part of a close-knit family located on the lower fringes of the English landed gentry. She was educated primarily by her father and older brothers as well as through her own reading. The steadfast support of her family was critical to her development as a professional writer. Her artistic apprenticeship lasted from her teenage years into her thirties. During this period, she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel which she then abandoned, and wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it.(Summaries adapted from Wikipedia.org) - READ along by clicking (CC) for Closed Caption Transcript! - LISTEN to the entire audiobook for free! Chapter listing and length: 01 Chapter 01 00:14:27 02 Chapter 02 00:10:42 03 Chapter 03 00:14:22 04 Chapter 04 00:10:12 05 Chapter 05 00:16:35 06 Chapter 06 00:18:37 07 Chapter 07 00:16:38 08 Chapter 08 00:15:59 09 Chapter 09 00:14:09 10 Chapter 10 00:19:57 11 Chapter 11 00:16:26 12 Chapter 12, Part 1 00:14:34 13 Chapter 12, Part 2 00:15:02 14 Chapter 13 00:13:57 15 Chapter 14 00:12:45 16 Chapter 15 00:14:27 17 Chapter 16 00:13:20 18 Chapter 17 00:18:49 19 Chapter 18 00:19:54 20 Chapter 19 00:12:50 21 Chapter 20 00:19:04 22 Chapter 21, Part 1 00:18:51 23 Chapter 21, Part 2 00:18:45 24 Chapter 22, Part 1 00:15:51 25 Chapter 22, Part 2 00:15:05 26 Chapter 23, Part 1 00:14:50 27 Chapter 23, Part 2 00:20:38 28 Chapter 24 00:08:45 #audiobook #audiobooks #freeaudiobooks #greatestaudiobooks #book #books #free #top #best #Persuasion #JaneAusten This video: Copyright 2014. Greatest Audio Books. All Rights Reserved. Audio content is a Librivox recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org.