Talkie Tuesday: Persuasion (1995)

 

"I have loved none but you."

 

Hello everyone!

 

And welcome again to yet another rendition of a favourite of mine.

 

Listen, okay, I can't help it.

 

But I'm now wondering if, after TWO successful iterations, I should risk it with the Netflix one.

 

Oh I'm sure it's fine and all but, remembering the trailer, I can honestly say it comes across as quite comedic, which this story is not and never was.

 

So I'm nervous. Can you blame me?

 

I might skip that one, because man oh man, if this isn't my favourite Jane Austen story then I don't know what to tell you. And the 1995 one doesn't disappoint, just like the 2007 one doesn't!

 

So without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, for the second time: Persuasion.

 

Talkie Tuesday: Persuasion (2007)

 

"I have loved none but you."

 

Hello everyone!

 

Terribly sorry about last week, but life just got in the way of practically EVERYTHING else, and I couldn't find either the time or the energy to write up any blog posts.

 

BUT.

 

I'm making up for that this week with a rather lovely choice, if I do say so myself, because I'm starting to realize I have different preferences regarding Jane Austen than I did while still in the throes of growing up, so to speak.

 

Don't get me wrong, Pride and Prejudice will ALWAYS be her best work, but her other novels deserve the same sort of respect, too.

 

Especially and most particularly the one I chose for tonight's blog, or its adaptation at least.

 

Bonnets out, everyone. Enter Persuasion, the 2007 version, stage right.

 

Persuasion (Booktober)

 

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope ... I have loved none but you."

 

 

 

What would any fall read-a-thon be without at least one Jane Austen book, am I right? Persuasion may not be one of her more popular or widely-known ones, but it still captures the essence of her writing and brings us characters from the Regency era that we either fall in love with, or want to strangle on sight. Anne and Captain Wentworth might even have benefited from the stronger obscurity that surrounds them as opposed to, say, Lizzie and Mr. Darcy. But if you want a story about constant, lasting love, then this just might be the book for you after all.

Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?

(from Goodreads)

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*image not mine

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