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Founding TextsPublished 1817

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Pages

385

Difficulty

Approachable

Tone

Salon

Chapters

24

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Full public-domain text on Usaile, split into 24 HTML chapters for comfortable reading and search indexing. Optional PDFs remain on Project Gutenberg.

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  1. Chapter I.
  2. Chapter Ii.
  3. Chapter Iii.
  4. Chapter Iv.
  5. Chapter V.
  6. Chapter Vi.
  7. Chapter Vii.
  8. Chapter Viii.
  9. Chapter Ix.
  10. Chapter X.
  11. Chapter Xi.
  12. Chapter Xii.
  13. Chapter Xiii.
  14. Chapter Xiv.
  15. Chapter Xv.
  16. Chapter Xvi.
  17. Chapter Xvii.
  18. Chapter Xviii.
  19. Chapter Xix.
  20. Chapter Xx.
  21. Chapter Xxi.
  22. Chapter Xxii.
  23. Chapter Xxiii.
  24. Chapter Xxiv.
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