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Persuasion by Jane Austen, Gillian Beer, Gillian Beer


Persuasion

Jane Austen, Gillian Beer, Gillian Beer

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Persuasion by Jane Austen, Gillian Beer, Gillian Beer
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

About the Author

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. She is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. Gillian Beer is King Edward Professor of English at the University of Cambridge and President of Clare Hall.
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Format
 Paperback
288 pages

Author
Jane Austen, Gillian Beer, Gillian Beer

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Publisher
Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd

Publication date
27th March 2003


ISBN
9780141439686
 

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