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Persuasion (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099589327

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 232g

  • RRP: £7.99

Persuasion (Vintage Classics Austen Series)

'It is a sort of private novel. In the heroine Anne Elliot, we have glimpses of Austen and what happened to her; the lost romance and the lost youth' Julian Fellowes

Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her friend Louisa. In this, her final novel, Jane Austen tells the story of a love that endures the tests of time and society with humour, insight and tenderness.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSS

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099589327

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 232g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want

    Independent

  • Everyone has their Austen, and this is mine. Sparer, more savage - and also more poignant than Pride and Prejudice, this is a novel that tells us wisely and wittily about the nature of romantic entanglements and the follies of being human. It isn't riven with the deep, muscular ironies of, say, Emma, but there is something about the dry lightness of Persuasion that is deceptive. It stays with you long after you've read it

    Nigella Lawson

  • I worship all of Austen's novels, but if I have to choose one over the others, I plump for the autumnal pleasures of Persuasion. This is the last work Austen completed before her death in 1817, and it is rather more tender and melancholy in tone than the novels that preceded it. I read it once or twice a year, whenever I feel in need of a good cry

    Zoe Heller

  • A subtle and elegiac novel - more heartfelt than some of her earlier romances and with a truly appealing heroine

    Joanna Trollope

  • Female self-worth could have been invented by Jane Austen. No wonder we still value her

    Germaine Greer, Guardian

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About the Author

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.

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