Persuaded years ago to reject the man she loved, Anne Elliot gets a second chance when Captain Wentworth returns from the sea, still wounded and still proud.
Books mentioned in Persuasion (4)
Marmion by Walter Scott: “…of poetry, the richness of the present age, and gone through a brief comparison of opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour was to be…”
The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott: “…the richness of the present age, and gone through a brief comparison of opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour was to be pronounced, he…”
The Giaour by Byron: “…of opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour was to be pronounced, he showed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest…”
The Bride of Abydos by Byron: “…opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour was to be pronounced, he showed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of…”
Books that mention Persuasion (2)
The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: “'Sir Walter Elliott, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who... never took up any book but the _Baronetage_'... She does write well, doesn't she?”
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff: “An hour later, as the sky darkened and the city emptied for the holiday, I lay on the couch rereading Persuasion, hoping I'd never have to put that suit back on again.”