January Classics Book Club: Persuasion by Jane Austen

Thu Jan 30 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC+00:00

1 Holywell Hill | St Albans

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January Classics Book Club: Persuasion by Jane Austen
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For January, to lift your spirits, we have chosen Persuasion by Jane Austen for our Classics Book Club.
About this Event

Classics can be intimidating. They have a reputation of being too highbrow and incomprehensible for us mere mortals. We at Books on the Hill, however, think that is just not true. Classics speak of a universal theme we all have first hand experience of: love, loss, friendship, hope. They are for all of us. To tackle this, we are starting a new Book Club focusing on "The Classics" from recent and not so recent history.


For January, to lift your spirits, we have chosen to explore Persuasion by Jane Austen.


This Book Club will be held on the last Thursday of the month, and is suitable for ages 18+. Tea and coffee will be provided, as well as glasses should you chose to bring your own tipple.


About the book -

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.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

1 Holywell Hill, 1 Holywell Hill, St Albans, United Kingdom

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GBP 11.55 to GBP 26.44

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