Persuasion & Mrs. Dalloway

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Persuasion & Mrs. Dalloway
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Persuasion & Mrs. Dalloway


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Persuasion
?How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.?Eight years earlier..Anne Elliot, the compassionate nineteen-year-old daughter of Sir Walter, is persuaded to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a young lieutenant in the Royal Navy, for he is without fortune. Now, eight years later..Captain Wentworth has returned to England rich and successful, but is still unforgiving. Anne, independent and mature, is still in love with him. and every time they come across each other, it is painful for her. What happens when Wentworth comes to know that Anne had turned down Charles Musgrove?s marriage proposal?Will his love for her resurface? Will their relationship be renewed?Written in Austen?s inimitable style, Persuasion reveals the emerging changes in the transforming social milieu of the nineteenth century. Published posthumously, it is Austen?s last completed novel. it has been a subject of numerous adaptations across various art forms. This moving love story continues to be appreciated by its readers.
Mrs. Dalloway
“She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”Wednesday, June 1923; post-war Britain. “Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”And thus begin the preparations of Clarissa Dalloway’s party. As she goes around London, memories of the past embrace her and she is left introspecting about the decisions she has made in life and love. In another part of the city, Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran of the First World War, is spending the day with his wife. He is suffering from shell shock and hallucinations.What happens as their day and life entwines? Narrated in the stream of consciousness mode, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is a unique novel in that it takes place in a single day. The novel highlights the broken inner state of people after the First World War. One of her greatest achievements, the book was included in the Time’s list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. The novel has undergone various film adaptations and continues to inspire its readers.