Persuasion

De: Jane Austen

Narrado por: Greta Scacchi

Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a tale of love and marriage told with irony and insight. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and seperated years before. Their reunion, after the passage or irrecoverable years of their youth, forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart.First published 1818. All rights reserved.; (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Perfect

It is senseless to extol the virtues of Austin. It's been done so many times, by so many people far more eloquent than I. I will confine myself to the narration.
I always have a problem with the narration of Austin books. Despite the fact that absolutely everyone has read them, there is always something grating in the audio productions. Austin shouldn't have to be something you suffer through. It is something you should have to smile through.
This book is. The narration is perfect. It never detracts from Austin's funny, touching, witty, and beautiful writing. Usually that is the very most I could say about an Austin narrator. Here I can go farther. Several times, the narrator's reading clued me in to a barb I'd missed in my reading or moved me in a place I ordinarily would have skimmed.
This is the version to get. It is Austin at her very best.

A work of art

Greta Scacchi reading Jane Austen is a perfect pairing. Scacchi reads with such subtelty of voice tones and timing that each nuance of Austen's word choice becomes a tapestry stitch in silk. Austen's words were so clearly written to be read aloud, but Scacchi uses them to captivate her listeners into a story that is a slower, much more autumnal love story than Emma or Pride and Prejudice, and without her art, might feel muted instead of delicate.

Relationship advice that still slaps

While so many struggle in relationship, beautiful pieces such as this are here for us. Much wisdom and understanding can be gleaned from Austen’s tale of persuasion, perspective, and admission that often humans are simply wrong.

Masterpiece

Jane Austen brings the story together so perfectly! Throughout the story there is such consistency and yet such complexity. And of course, in the true Jane Austen fashion, a happy ending for two lovers.

Beautiful reading

One of my favorite books and it was read so well, outside of some strange pauses. Not sure if that was the reading or the editing. Otherwise beautiful book!