Persuasion (Penguin Hardback Classics)

by JaneAusten (Author), Gillian Beer (Introduction)

• New

  Hardcover
  2011

  $18.11

  Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2011

  $3.45

  Anne, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, is persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, who, though promising, had poor family connections. When her father rents out the family estate to Admiral Croft, Anne is thrown into company with Frederick again who is now a rich, successful Captain. Will he and Anne rekindle the old flame?

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.45

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $13.36

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $16.51

  This complete and unabridged edition contains a biography of the author and a new introduction and afterword. Anne falls in love with Wentworth, who had nothing but himself to recommend him, and no hopes of attaining influence, so persuaded by friends and family she breaks off the match and sends him away. Years later, he returns, is it too late?