Persuasion (Penguin Classics S.) - Softcover

Austen, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140434674 ISBN 13: 9780140434675

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1998

Synopsis

PERSUASION concerns the story of Anne Elliot, intelligent daughter of a spendthrift baronet, and her love for Frederick Wentworth, a young naval officer. She is persuaded however, to refuse his proposition of marriage and spends seven unhappy years before he reenters her life. Austen's satire takes a milder form in this, her last novel and there is a tradition that a love-story of her own is reflected in Anne Elliot's. In her Introduction, Gillian Beer writes 'with its overwhelming sympathy with one person, Anne Elliot, is - despite its many scenes of social comedy and prudential realism - drenched in romance'.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0140434674
• ISBN 13: 9780140434675
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272