Persuasion

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Title:

Persuasion

Author:

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

ISBN:

9780141439686

Personal Author:

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2003.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 250 pages ; 20 cm.

Series:

Penguin classics

Penguin classics.

Contents:

The Penguin edition of the novels of Jane Austen -- Chronology -- Persuasion -- Emendations to the text --

Abstract:

Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend La.

Personal Subject:

Elliot, Anne (Fictitious character), 1787--Fiction.

Elliot, Anne (Fictitious character), 1787- (OCoLC)fst01925014

Subject Term:

Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Motherless families -- Fiction.

Ship captains -- Fiction.

Young women -- Fiction.

Motherless families. (OCoLC)fst01026939

Rejection (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01093554

Ship captains. (OCoLC)fst01116147

Young women. (OCoLC)fst01183301

Geographic Term:

England -- Fiction.

England. (OCoLC)fst01219920

Genre:

Psychological fiction.

Love stories.

Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787

Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481

Added Author:

Beer, Gillian.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2003269842-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2003269842-d.html

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Summary

Jane Austen's last completed novel, marrying witty social realism to a Cinderella love story

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.

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