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
- Length83,496 words · 5h 34m of reading
- Chapters24
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
24 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01CHAPTER I.
- 02CHAPTER II.
- 03CHAPTER III.
- 04CHAPTER IV.
- 05CHAPTER V.
- 06CHAPTER VI.
- 07CHAPTER VII.
- 08CHAPTER VIII.
- 09CHAPTER IX.
- 10CHAPTER X.
- 11CHAPTER XI.
- 12CHAPTER XII.
- 13CHAPTER XIII.
- 14CHAPTER XIV.
- 15CHAPTER XV.
- 16CHAPTER XVI.
- 17CHAPTER XVII.
- 18CHAPTER XVIII.
- 19CHAPTER XIX.
- 20CHAPTER XX.
- 21CHAPTER XXI.
- 22CHAPTER XXII.
- 23CHAPTER XXIII.
- 24CHAPTER XXIV.
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