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OverviewEight years ago, Anne rejected the man she loved because her friends and family persuaded her that he wasn't rich or important enough. In all that time, she's never found anyone to match Captain Wentworth. With her snobbish father and spoiled sister always ready to embarrass her in polite society, Anne wonders if she'll ever find the courage to follow her heart again. And if she does, what can she do to regain the affections of her Captain? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jane AustenPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 11.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 18.10cm Weight: 0.176kg ISBN: 9780141045146ISBN 10: 0141045140 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 29 June 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsPrue writes: 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 Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. The two of them are forced into each other's company, and once the wounds of the past are forgiven they reunite.<br />Of all Austen's novel this is by far my favourite. I feel it is the most human, most touching, most measured, most assured of all of her novels and it is a wonderful thing to see her write a woman like Anne. I love most of her heroines, but Anne is a person I would want to meet and become friends with. The men in Persuasion are also the most fleshed out of all of her male characters. Wentworth and his friends, as well as the other men Anne comes into contact with are really clearly presented, it seems that, just as Anne is a woman in this novel, Austen wants to match her with multifaceted, human men. Persuasion is a must read novel, it is a real treat. Author InformationJane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 at Steventon, near Basingstoke, the seventh child of the rector of the parish. She lived with her family at Steventon until they moved to Bath when her father retired in 1801. After his death in 1805, she moved around with her mother; in 1809, they settled in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. Here she remained, except for a few visits to London, until in May 1817 she moved to Winchester to be near her doctor. There she died on 18 July 1817. Jane Austen was extremely modest about her own genius, describing her work to her nephew, Edward, as 'the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory, on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces little effect after much labour'. As a girl she wrote stories, including burlesques of popular romances. Her works were published only after much revision, four novels being published in her lifetime. These are Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, were published posthumously in 1817 with a biographical notice by her brother, Henry Austen, the first formal announcement of her authorship. Persuasion was written in a race against failing health in 1815-16. She also left two earlier compositions, a short epistolary novel, Lady Susan, and an unfinished novel, The Watsons. At the time of her death, she was working on a new novel, Sanditon, a fragmentary draft of which survives. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |