Jane Austen

Persuasion -- Jane Austen, Paperback

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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.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 04/29/2003
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780141439686
Age Range: 18-UP

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 12
Point Value: 19
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 50678 / Persuasion

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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Classics, England, Fiction, Fiction Classics, Historical, Jane Austen, Literary, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Paperback, Penguin Classics, Penguin Group, Romance, Young Adult

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