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Category: Fiction: Literature
Copyright/published Year: 2015 by Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780141439686
Binding: trade pap
Description: Called a 'perfect novel' by Harold Bloom, Persuasion was written ì while Jane Austen was in failing health. She died soon after its ì completion, and it was published in an edition with Northanger ì Abbey in 1818.
In the novel, Anne Elliot, the heroine Austen called 'almost ì too good for me,' has let herself be persuaded not to marry ì Frederick Wentworth, a fine and attractive man without means. ì Eight years later, Captain Wentworth returns from the Napoleonic ì Wars with a triumphant naval career behind him, a substantial ì fortune to his name, and an eagerness to wed. Austen explores the ì complexities of human relationships as they change over time. ì 'She is a prose Shakespeare,' Thomas Macaulay wrote of Austen in ì 1842. 'She has given us a multitude of characters, all, in a ì certain sense, commonplace. Yet they are all as perfectly ì discriminated from each other as if they were the most eccentric ì of human beings.'
Persuasion is the last work of one of the greatest of ì novelists, the end of a quiet career pursued in anonymity in ì rural England that produced novels which continue to give ì pleasure to millions of readers throughout the world.
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