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Persuasion

By Jane Austen
Introduction by Gillian Beer
Edited by Gillian Beer
Notes by Gillian Beer

By Jane Austen
Introduction by Gillian Beer
Edited by Gillian Beer
Notes by Gillian Beer

By Jane Austen
Cover Design or Artwork by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Introduction by Gillian Beer
Edited by Gillian Beer
Notes by Gillian Beer

By Jane Austen
Cover Design or Artwork by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Introduction by Gillian Beer
Edited by Gillian Beer
Notes by Gillian Beer

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Apr 29, 2003 | ISBN 9780141439686

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Apr 24, 2012 | ISBN 9780141197692

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    About Persuasion

    Jane Austen’s beloved and subtly subversive final novel of romantic tension and second chances. Now a motion picture from Netflix starring Dakota Johnson and Henry Golding, and a TikTok Book Club Pick.

    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.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About Persuasion

    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 fortunenor 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.

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    About Jane Austen

    Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on… More about Jane Austen

    About Jane Austen

    Though the domain of Jane Austen’s novels was as circumscribed as her life, her caustic wit and keen observation made her the equal of the greatest novelists in any language. Born the seventh child of the rector of Steventon, Hampshire, on… More about Jane Austen

    Product Details

    Category: Classic Fiction | Historical Romance | Literary Fiction | Regency Romance

    Paperback | $7.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Apr 29, 2003 | 288 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780141439686

    Category: Classic Fiction | Historical Romance | Literary Fiction | Regency Romance

    Hardcover | $26.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Apr 24, 2012 | 288 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780141197692
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    Praise

    “Critics, especially [recently], value Persuasion highly, as the author’s ‘most deeply felt fiction,’ ‘the novel which in the end the experienced reader of Jane Austen puts at the head of the list.’ . . . Anne wins back Wentworth and wins over the reader; we may, like him, end up thinking Anne’s character ‘perfection itself.’” –from the Introduction by Judith Terry

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