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Persuasion

by Jane Austen

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England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- FictionPsychological fictionYoung women -- FictionMotherless families -- FictionRejection (Psychology) -- Fiction

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  1. 01CHAPTER I.~17 min
  2. 02CHAPTER II.~13 min
  3. 03CHAPTER III.~18 min
  4. 04CHAPTER IV.~12 min
  5. 05CHAPTER V.~21 min
  6. 06CHAPTER VI.~24 min
  7. 07CHAPTER VII.~22 min
  8. 08CHAPTER VIII.~21 min
  9. 09CHAPTER IX.~18 min
  10. 10CHAPTER X.~25 min
  11. 11CHAPTER XI.~19 min
  12. 12CHAPTER XII. — part 1~25 min
  13. 13CHAPTER XII. — part 2~10 min
  14. 14CHAPTER XIII.~18 min
  15. 15CHAPTER XIV.~16 min
  16. 16CHAPTER XV.~18 min
  17. 17CHAPTER XVI.~16 min
  18. 18CHAPTER XVII.~22 min
  19. 19CHAPTER XVIII. — part 1~25 min
  20. 20CHAPTER XVIII. — part 2~1 min
  21. 21CHAPTER XIX.~15 min
  22. 22CHAPTER XX.~22 min
  23. 23CHAPTER XXI. — part 1~25 min
  24. 24CHAPTER XXI. — part 2~19 min
  25. 25CHAPTER XXII. — part 1~25 min
  26. 26CHAPTER XXII. — part 2~12 min
  27. 27CHAPTER XXIII. — part 1~25 min
  28. 28CHAPTER XXIII. — part 2~17 min
  29. 29CHAPTER XXIV.~10 min

A few words to begin

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed. This was the page at which the favourite volume always opened: “ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH HALL.

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