My favourite Austen's is PERSUASION. It is her last novel and the one whose protagonist I most sympathize with. Have a look at the right column of my blog: I AM ANNE ELLIOT. I've never met a Captain Wentworth, or, better, I've never re-met him after a long separation ... a Wentworth maybe lost forever in my past. Perhaps this is why I love this story and each time I'm moved at the two protagonists' delayed but intense final gratification and happiness. Tonight, surfing the Net, I've found this video with Greg Wise (do you remember Willoughby 1995?) reading PERSUASION. I listened to him and ... loved being persuaded by this handsome man!
Do you want to try? Take 15 minutes off, make a cup of good long coffee, sit , relax... and enjoy the reading!
(CLICK ON THE LINK UNDER THE PICTURE)
Excellent reading, wasn't it? Now let's see how this beautiful finale, written by Jane Austen in the last years of her short life, was interpreted and transformed in two Tv adaptations , BBC 1995 and ITV 2007.
BBC 1995 PERSUASION ( ending)
ITV 2007 PERSUASION
ENDING PART I
ITV 2007 PERSUASION
ENDING PART II