Persuasion by Jane Austen
Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Taesha Glasgow
4 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Tonight's bedtime tale is Persuasion by Jane Austen. This was her final completed novel published in 1817 after her death. In this episode, we are introduced to the Elliots and learn about their financial troubles.
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| 0:00.0 | Do, do, do... |
| 0:03.5 | Bampa! |
| 0:07.1 | Bampa! Bampa! Bampa! Bampa! |
| 0:09.9 | Okay, enough Rasmataz! |
| 0:12.8 | But it's not every day a new scratch card drops. |
| 0:15.0 | With the new set for five years scratch card from the National Lottery, |
| 0:19.3 | you could win five grand a month, every month, for five years. |
| 0:23.0 | Pick up yours in store today and get scratching. |
| 0:26.2 | Search Dream Big Place Mall. Rules, procedures and game-specific rules apply. |
| 0:29.0 | Place must be 18 or over. |
| 0:33.9 | Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. My mission is simple to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you and drift off to sleep. Every week I will read classic literature |
| 1:00.0 | in the public domain. If you enjoy the podcast, please remember to follow in your favorite podcast app. |
| 1:15.7 | Tonight I will be reading Jane Austen's Persuasion. |
| 1:26.9 | So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story. |
| 1:36.3 | Chapter 1 |
| 1:40.3 | Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall in Somersetshire was a man who, for his own amusement, |
| 1:49.8 | never took up any book but the baronetage. |
| 1:54.2 | There he found occupation for an idle hour and consolation and a distressed one. |
| 2:03.6 | There his faculties were roused into admiration and respect by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents. |
| 2:11.7 | There, any unwelcome sensations arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost |
| 2:21.8 | endless creations of the last century. And there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his |
| 2:29.5 | own history with an interest which never failed. |
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