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Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback - 2004 - 2nd Edition

by Austen, Jane


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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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Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future.
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry,
nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances.
Jane Austen's last completed novel features a heroine much older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and presents a more intimate and sober tale of a love found long after such happiness had been deemed hopeless. This edition includes an appendix giving the original ending of
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THE following pages are the production of a pen which has already contributed in no small degree to the entertainment of the public.

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 (Oxford World's Classics)
  • Author Austen, Jane
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 304
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date February 11, 2004
  • ISBN 9780192802637

About the author


Deidre Shauna Lynch is the author of The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning and editor of Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees.
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