Persuasion Paperback - 1997
by Jane Austen
Austen's last novel is the crowning achievement of her matchless career. Her heroine, Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity, breeding and great depth of emotion, stands in stark contrast to the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England. Includes a new Introduction by Margaret Drabble, famed novelist and editor of The Oxford Companion to the English Language.
From the rear cover
First published in 1818, Persuasion was Jane Austen's last work. Its mellow character and autumnal tone have long made it a favorite with Austen readers. Set in Somersetshire and Bath, the novel revolves around the lives and love affair of Sir Walter Elliot, his daughters Elizabeth, Anne, and Mary, and various in-laws, friends, suitors, and other characters, In Anne Elliot, the author created perhaps her sweetest, most appealing heroine.
In Persuasion, as in such novels as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Austen limned the plight of young women who could escape the constraints of family life only by marrying, and suggest the foolishness of women who believed they were free and not dependent on the financial and social resources of men. At the same time, Persuasion offers an ironic and subtle paean to the true love that enables one woman to rise above straitened economic circumstances and the stifling social conventions that restricted women to narrowly circumscribed lives in the common sitting room.
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- Title Persuasion
- Author Jane Austen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-04-24
- ISBN 9780486295558 / 0486295559
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8.25 x 5.16 x 0.49 in (20.96 x 13.11 x 1.24 cm)
- Ages 11 to UP years
- Grade levels 6 - UP
- Reading level 840
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97010948
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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