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Persuasion

Persuasion

Jane Austen

Anne Elliot, twenty-seven and still single, seems destined for spinsterhood. In her youth, she broke off an engagement to penniless Captain Wentworth at the insistence of her friend Lady Russell, acquiescing to the demands of her class at the expense of her happiness.
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'In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she had supposed' Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen's moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and with few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she was persuaded by others to break off her engagement to poor, handsome naval captain Frederick Wentworth. What happens when they meet again is movingly told in Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, and a mature, tender love story tinged with heartache.

Edited with an Introduction by Gillian Beer

Product Description

Title - Persuasion

Edition -

Author - Jane Austen

ISBN 13 - 9780141439686

Imprint - Penguin Classics

Publisher - Penguin Books Ltd

Date Published - 27/03/2003

Prize -

No. of pages -

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 128 x 198 x 19mm

Weight - 210 g

Languages - English