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Persuasion Paperback - 2010

by Jane Austen


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Written in her final illness, Persuasion is Jane Austen's finest novel.

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 humor, insight, and tenderness. 

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'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.'

Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Persuasion is a tale of love, heartache and the determination of one woman as she strives to reignite a lost love.

Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends and family to reject a marriage proposal from Captain Wentworth because he lacks in fortune and rank. More than seven years later, when he returns home from the Navy, Anne realises she still has strong feelings for him, but Wentworth only appears to have eyes for a friend of Anne's.

Moving, tender, but intrinsically 'Austen' in style, with it's satirical portrayal of the vanity of society in eighteenth-century England, Persuasion celebrates enduring love and hope.

First Edition Identification

Persuasion was first published in 1818 in an edition with Northanger Abbey.  London: John Murray, 1818

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  • Title Persuasion
  • Author Jane Austen
  • Series Collins Classics
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William Collins
  • Date 2010-07
  • ISBN 9780007368617 / 0007368615
  • Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7 x 4.38 x 0.69 in (17.78 x 11.13 x 1.75 cm)
  • Reading level 1100
  • Library of Congress subjects England - Social life and customs
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Jane Austen (1775 1817) was an English novelist whose work centred on social commentary and realism. Her works of romantic fiction are set among the landed gentry, and she is one of the most widely read writers in English literature.

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