Jane Austen's Persuasion In Plain and Simple English (Digital Download)

  Buy Persuasion In Modern English Now!     Do you need to understand Persuasion and want something more interactive? Try our free app, SwipeSpeare! Excerpt From Persuasion In Modern English Chapter 1 Sir Walter Elliot, who lived in Kellynch Hall, in Somerset, was a man who never looked at any book for pleasure except the one which contained the list of barons. That kept him amused when he was bored, and cheered him up when he was upset. Looking at the oldest titles created pleased him, and any annoyance he was feeling from trouble at home faded away as he looked sneeringly at the titles which had been most recently established. Even if every other page could not cheer him up, he never tired of reading about his own family. The book always fell open at this page: “ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH HALL.“Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of Gloucester, by which lad