Persuasion
$15.51
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2003
Summary
Persuasion: A Second Chance at Love
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot believes her chance at love has passed. Eight years prior, she was convinced to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a captivating naval captain lacking fortune and status. Jane Austen’s final novel beautifully portrays their reunion, set against the backdrop of Lyme Regis and Bath’s high society. “Persuasion” is a sharp commentary on vanity and pretense, but at its heart, it’s a poignant love story about…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141439686 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141439688 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Jane Austen, Gillian Beer |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
“Critics, especially [recently], value Persuasion highly, as the author’s ‘most deeply felt fiction,’ ‘the novel which in the end the experienced reader of Jane Austen puts at the head of the list….’ Anne wins back Wentworth and wins over the reader; we may, like him, end up thinking Anne’s character ‘perfection itself.’” –from the Introduction by Judith Terry
About The Author
Jane Austen
Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family’s amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.
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