Persuasion

Prof. Robert Morrison edited Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” for Harvard University Press. On the classic’s 200th anniversary, he explains how Austen’s rhythmic words on loss, love and hope still resonate.

Henry Golding, Dakota Johnson and Cosmo Jarvis appear in the first look for Netflix's adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion

Favorite Couples - Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion) "Miss Elliot, I can bear this no longer. You pierce my soul. I'm half agony, half hope. Unjust I may have been. Weak and resentful I...

Director Carrie Cracknell hopes their playfully witty riff on a literary classic—coming to Netflix in July—will introduce Austen’s tale to a whole new generation.

Ahh Wentworth. He pierces my soul. Perhaps my favourite JA man

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You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.

Pride and Prejudice should be read in the spring; Emma in the summer. But Persuasion is for fall. This the last novel Austen completed before her death, and it’s darker and more serious in tone than her earlier works. With its themes of love, regret, and fidelity, this is my favorite Austen novel—at