Page Turners: Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Page Turners Book Club certainly does not lack a variety of reading selections. From last month’s visit to China we are going to England this month reading a beloved classic by Jane Austen. The books we read are selected by members’ votes. A large number of titles are suggested by members along with a short description of the book. The following is an example of such a submission.
“Persuasion, by Jane Austen, paperback, 272 pages. At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. 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. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen’s last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.”
The Monday afternoon group will meet February 25 and the Thursday afternoon group will meet February 28.
For information on the Thursday group, contact Steve and Ann Morris at samwrsi@cox.net and for the Monday afternoon group, Frances Ozimec at fozimec@cox.net.
—Frances Ozimec