PC Persuasion

Austen, Jane

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‘Persuasion’ is the story of Anne Elliot, intelligent daughter of a spendthrift baronet, and her love for Frederick Wentworth. She is persuaded to refuse his proposition of marriage and spends seven unhappy years until he re-enters her life.

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Publish Date: 27/03/2003
ISBN: 9780141439686 Category: Tag:

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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

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Weight 213 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 16 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

250

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

823.7 (edition:21)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K