

Persuasion
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Jane Austen
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. 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. Jane Austen's last completed novel features a heroine much older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and presents a more intimate and sober tale of a love found long after such happiness had been deemed hopeless. This edition includes an appendix giving the original ending of Persuasion.
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More Details:
Author
Jane Austen
Pages
285
Publisher
Signet Classic
Published Date
1996
ISBN
0451526384 9780451526380
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"Another classic that I enjoy reading. I just love Jane Austen and her wit to write is just marvelous."
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Norma Blanco
"My favorite Jane Austen. Anne is levelheaded but often surrounded by ridiculous people- it makes it wildly entertaining. She’s a character that you want to root for... you want her to rekindle love and escape the confines of her environment."
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Autumn Brady
"England"
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Anna
"One of my favorite Jane Austen’s "
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Nikki E
"Slow burning second chance love story. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. "
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Krys
"I've read it many times, about a week. I'm a busy mum."
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Diedra Deutsch
"Persuasion is my favorite but I love sense and sensibility, pride and prejudice, and northa ger abbey. I am not fond of Emma or Mansfield Park but some people do."
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Elisabeth Scherer
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