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Title Statement | Persuasion / Jane Austen ; edited with an introduction and notes by Gillian Beer. |
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Series | Penguin classics |
Author | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 |
Additional Contributors | Beer, Gillian |
Publication | London ;: New York: Penguin Books, 2011. |
Extent of Item | xxxvii, 250 p. ; |
ISBN | 9780141197692 (cloth : hc) : 0141197692 (cloth : hc) : |
Contents | The Penguin edition of the novels of Jane Austen --Chronology --Introductiion -- Further reading -- Note on the text -- Persuasion --Volume one -- Volume two -- Emendations to the text --Notes. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxv]). |
Summary | Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell. |
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By Location | England--Fiction |