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A review by mmorabu
Persuasion by Jane Austen
5.0
Sigh, this is for the delusional girlies but also it's some of Jane Austen at her best. It's funny, has her signature irony, social commentary on women's roles in society, and I really like that rumination re love towards the end. Also the letter, everyone loves the letter, I love the letter, and I think we need to bring love letters back:
"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan."
Like I'm sorry she really wrote this and thought I'd be okay?? I will say, on this read when Anne clocked that Wentworth may still be into her, the cynicism in me really jumped out (and I'm also like damn what happened to me??) and I was like, ok sure but it's a fluffy romance! Don't know why she keeps pairing cousins together, and yes I am aware it wasn't as weird back then.
"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan."
Like I'm sorry she really wrote this and thought I'd be okay?? I will say, on this read when Anne clocked that Wentworth may still be into her, the cynicism in me really jumped out (and I'm also like damn what happened to me??) and I was like, ok sure but it's a fluffy romance! Don't know why she keeps pairing cousins together, and yes I am aware it wasn't as weird back then.