by Gillian Beer (Introduction), Gillian Beer (Introduction), Jane Austen (Author), Jane Austen (Author)
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, "Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: New ed
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 06 Apr 2006
ISBN 10: 0141028114
ISBN 13: 9780141028118