Persuasion
$14.57
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2003
Summary
Persuasion: A Second Chance at Love
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot faces a dwindling prospect of marriage. Eight years prior, she yielded to the advice of her friend, Lady Russell, and ended her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a charming naval captain lacking wealth and status.
Jane Austen’s final completed novel delicately portrays their reunion. Set against the backdrop of Lyme Regis and Bath’s high society, Persuasion cleverly satirizes vanity and arrogance. A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141439686 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141439688 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Jane Austen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 209g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 128mm x 197mm |
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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 (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature’s most famous women writers. She is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey.
Gillian Beer is King Edward Professor of English at the University of Cambridge and President of Clare Hall.
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