Persuasion / Jane Austen ; edited with an introduction and notes by Gillian Beer.
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TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003.Description: xxxvii, 250 p. ; 20 cmISBN: - 0141439688 (pbk.)
- 9780141439686 (pbk.)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Jane Austen's last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a Cinderella love story
At twenty--seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
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First published, 1818. Published in Penguin Classics, 1998. Reissued with new chronology, updated further reading, 2003 -- t.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxv]).
Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend La.