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Persuasion (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780143106289

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 201mm x 19mm x 147mm

  • Weight: 298g

  • RRP: £12.99

Persuasion (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

  • Jane Austen

  • Audrey Niffenegger (Illustrator)

  • Colm Tóibín (Introducer)

Written during Jane Austen's race against failing health, Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who - at twenty-seven - is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years ago, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. When Anne and Frederick meet again, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of her rejection. A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Austen's last completed novel is also a movingly told love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780143106289

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 201mm x 19mm x 147mm

  • Weight: 298g

  • RRP: £12.99

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.

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