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Persuasion (Barnes & Noble Classics) Book

Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after Anne sent her beau packing, and she's still alone. But then the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea. As always, Austen's storytelling is so confident, you can't help but allow yourself to be taken on the enjoyable journey.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Persuasion, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
    All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
     
    In her final novel, as in her earlier ones, Jane Austen uses a love story to explore and gently satirize social pretensions and emotional confusion. Persuasion follows the romance of Anne Elliot and naval officer Frederick Wentworth. They were happily engaged until Anneâ??s friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her that Frederick was “unworthy.â? Now, eight years later, Frederick returns, a wealthy captain in the navy, while Anneâ??s family teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. They still love each other, but their past mistakes threaten to keep them apart.

    Austen may seem to paint on a small canvas, but her characters contain the full range of human passion and moral complexity, and the authorâ??s generous spirit renders them all with understanding, compassion, and humor.

    Susan Ostrov Weisser is a professor of English at Adelphi University, where she specializes in nineteenth-century literature and womenâ??s studies. Weisser also wrote the introduction to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Jane Eyre.

  • 1593081308
  • 9781593081300
  • Jane Austen
  • 14 May 2004
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 288
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