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PERSUASION (Oxford Pocket Classics)
by Austen, Jane
- Used
- Fine
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0517626314
- ISBN 13
- 9780517626313
- Seller
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Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
N.Y.: Avenal, 1986. 1st edition thus, with complete letter line begininning with A. 4 x. 6 "pocket " size. Near fine in dust jacket lighty sunned at spine. What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Barratt, Angela. 18mo - 0ver 4" x 6.5" Tall. Book.
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
- Murder By The Book
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020222
- Title
- PERSUASION (Oxford Pocket Classics)
- Author
- Austen, Jane
- Illustrator
- Barratt, Angela
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0517626314
- ISBN 13
- 9780517626313
- Publisher
- Avenal
- Place of Publication
- N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 18mo - 0ver 4" x 6.5"
- Keywords
- Comic, Romance, Literature,
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