Persuasion

Description

Product ID:	9780141439686
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	Persuasion
Authors:	Author: Jane Austen
Page Count:	288
Subjects:	Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Description:	Select Guide Rating 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. *''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
Imprint Name:	Penguin Classics
Publisher Name:	Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2003-03-27

Weight	214 g
Dimensions	198 × 130 × 18 mm