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By Maris Takara Tebecis - May 23, 2007

Jane Austen's insightful and influential novel Persuasion is an emotional tale of human conduct, and, in particular, of the moral implications of direct and indirect persuasion. The impact of the words of Sir Charles Grandison "...there is great cruelty in persuasion..."(VI Letter 34), which highlight the notion that the "act of persuading somebody…

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