A review by ethanhkelly
Persuasion by Jane Austen

4.0

For better or for worse, my first Austen is her last novel, which likely lessens the impact of the narrative experiments she introduced - particularly her use of free-indirect speech. That being said, her composition is truly all it is hyped up to be, intersecting class, gender, and etiquette to craft a love story full of subtlety and tension. Fun class read.

I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as—if I may be allowed the expression—so long as you have an object. I mean while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.