Persuasion
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Persuasion
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AI Voice Alex Mercer
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Narrated by:
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Jane Austen
This title uses virtual voice narration
Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.
Summary
Eight years ago Anne Elliot let herself be persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young naval officer with no fortune and no name. Now the war is over, Captain Wentworth returns to Somersetshire with prize money, a reputation, and a memory of the woman who once refused him.
Her family has spent the fortune that made her refuse him. Kellynch Hall must be let, the carriage sold, and the Eliots retreat to Bath, where vanity passes for consequence and Anne—quiet, observant, thirty-seven—is treated as the least of them. When circumstance throws her back into Wentworth's company at Lyme Regis and in the crowded drawing rooms of Bath, she must watch him charm every other woman in the room while she holds her tongue.
Jane Austen's last completed novel is her most tender and most mature: a story about second chances, about the cost of being persuaded against your own heart, and about a love that survives eight years of silence. Persuasion has no ballroom fireworks and no convenient inheritance—only the slow, painful, deeply human work of two people finding their way back to each other.
Written in 1817 and published after Austen's death, Persuasion remains a cornerstone of English literature and one of the most loved romance novels ever written. The novel's themes of regret, resilience, and faithfulness give it a quiet emotional power that rewards both first-time listeners and returning readers.
This unabridged audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
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