Persuasion
$14.75
- Hardcover
312 pages
- Release Date
12 July 2016
Summary
Jane Austen’s final novel is her most mature and wickedly satirical. It follows the story of Anne Elliott, who as a teenager, was engaged to a seemingly ideal man, Frederick Wentworth. But after being persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that he is too poor to be a suitable match, Anne ends their engagement. When they are reacquainted eight years later, their circumstances are transformed: Frederick is returning triumphantly from the Napoleonic War, while Anne’s fortunes are floundering. Will…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781909621701 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1909621706 |
| Author: | Jane Austen, Henry Hitchings, Hugh Thomson |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Edition: | New Edition |
| Release Date: | 12 July 2016 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 101mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Persuasion seems to be the Jane Austen novel that has most touched our readers’ hearts
Persuasion seems to be the Jane Austen novel that has most touched our readers’ hearts – Sam Jordison * Guardian *
Persuasion is Austen’s most mature and melancholic novel, a frost-tipped exploration of the meaning of love and a quietly savage critique of Regency England’s obsessions with money and class – Claire Allfree * Telegraph *
Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born in 1775 in rural Hampshire, the daughter of an affluent village rector who encouraged her in her artistic pursuits. In novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma she developed her subtle analysis of contemporary life through depictions of the middle-classes in small towns. Her sharp wit and incisive portraits of ordinary people have given her novels enduring popularity. She died in 1817.
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