Persuasion

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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally …

Details

• AuthorJane Austen
• SourceProject Gutenberg #105
• Length83,112 words · 5h 32m of reading
• Chapters25
• DictionaryNot yet generated
• CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
• Source checked2026-08-28

Contents

25 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

1. 01Persuasion
2. 02CHAPTER I.
3. 03CHAPTER II.
4. 04CHAPTER III.
5. 05CHAPTER IV.
6. 06CHAPTER V.
7. 07CHAPTER VI.
8. 08CHAPTER VII.
9. 09CHAPTER VIII.
10. 10CHAPTER IX.
11. 11CHAPTER X.
12. 12CHAPTER XI.
13. 13CHAPTER XII.
14. 14CHAPTER XIII.
15. 15CHAPTER XIV.
16. 16CHAPTER XV.
17. 17CHAPTER XVI.
18. 18CHAPTER XVII.
19. 19CHAPTER XVIII.
20. 20CHAPTER XIX.
21. 21CHAPTER XX.
22. 22CHAPTER XXI.
23. 23CHAPTER XXII.
24. 24CHAPTER XXIII.
25. 25CHAPTER XXIV.

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