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Just finished reading Persuasion by Jane Austen. All I can say is wow.
24 upvotes, 3 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Book Club. "Just finished reading Persuasion by Jane Austen. All I can say is wow."
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Anonymous 18h

I wish there was more of this and not paragraphs of recapping conversations that she could have written out instead. I love moments of Austen so much, but so much else is hard for me to get through 😪

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8h

I generally agree with your opinion on her vagueness with one incredible exception from Mansfield Park:

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8h

“I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that every one may be at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as to time in different people. I only entreat everybody to believe that exactly at the time when it was quite natural that it should be so, and not a week earlier, Edmund did cease to care about Miss Crawford, and became as anxious to marry Fanny as Fanny herself could desire.”

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