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Persuasion
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Paperback Oxford Worlds Classics English
By (author) Jane Austen , Introduction and notes by Deidre Shauna Lynch , Edited by James Kinsley


She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances.

Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future.
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Product details

Format Paperback | 304 pages
Dimensions 129 x 196 x 16mm | 212g
Publication date 15 May 2008
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement New edition
ISBN10 0199535558
ISBN13 9780199535552
Bestsellers rank 16,729