MORNING BOOK
Please join us in reading and discussing Persuasion, by Jane Austen, at 10AM on Monday, November 24. This December will be Jane Austen’s 250th birthday! Persuasion, Austen’s final completed novel (1817), features her trademark humor, style, and memorable characters. At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot not only is no longer young and has few romantic prospects, but her family is dealing with financial losses. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. Now Wentworth has returned, having made his fortune as a naval officer in the Napoleonic wars. How will Anne overcome family and societal expectations and her own feelings that she has irrevocably missed her chance? Can Captain Wentworth forgive her for rejecting him in the past? Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, a picture of a time of societal change, but also a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
Linda Harris will lead our discussion at my house, 5654 Palm Ave., Whittier. I will also provide refreshments. Please let me know if you will be attending in person so I can plan accordingly. I will provide a Zoom link for those unable to be here which will be sent shortly before the meeting.
Ann Topjon, Chair 562-665-1724