description: 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 into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed.
language: English
title: Persuasion
titlecomplete: Persuasion
characters: Admiral Croft, Henrietta Musgrove, Captain Harville, Mary Musgrove, Mrs. Smith, Sophia Croft, Charles Musgrove, Lady Russell, Sir Walter Elliot, William Elliot, Captain Frederick Wentworth, Anne Elliot, Elizabeth Elliot, Louisa Musgrove, Captain James Benwick, Penelope Clay
genres: Historical, Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 673144
places: Somerset, England, Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, England, Lyme Regis, England
publisher: Dutton Adult