Persuasion
by Jane Austen
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used
- ISBN 10
- 0140430059
- ISBN 13
- 9780140430059
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In Persuasion, her last novel, Jane Austen reveals her most mature dissection of people, place and social setting.
Like the earlier works Persuasion is a tale of love and marriage, told with the irony, insight and just evaluation of human conduct which sets her novels apart. But the heroine - like the author - is more mature; the tone of the writing is more sombre. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and separated years before. Their reunion forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart. The characters who embody those values are the subjects of some of the most withering satire that Jane Austen ever wrote.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Fay Tsapoga (GR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16
- Title
- Persuasion
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140430059
- ISBN 13
- 9780140430059
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1985
- Pages
- 400
- Keywords
- Literature
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