Austen's masterful, proto-feminist skewering of the vanity and pretension of Georgian England's fashionable society revolves around no longer very 'eligible' Anne Elliot as she comes face to face with the love of her life from years ago whose hand in marriage she was persuaded to turn down.
Jane Austen's moving late novel of missed opportunities and second chances centres on Anne Elliot, no longer young and with few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she was persuaded by others to break off her engagement to poor, handsome naval captain Frederick Wentworth. What happens when they meet again is movingly told in Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, and a mature, tender love story tinged with heartache.
Edited with an Introduction by Gillian Beer.
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141439686
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 213 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
I am in love with this book! I had to buy a new copy because the one I bought at Chawton in 1996 was getting tatty as I'd re-read it so often. I love the slow burn story of Anne and Frederick being reunited, of... More
I bought the whole Jane Austen collection as a birthday present for my partner and they were perfect! The pictures honestly don't do these books justice! And when they are all sitting together as a set they look... More
Beautiful book, beautiful 1800's language, True JA Classic
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