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Persuasion

By Jane Austen
Introduction by Juliette Wells
Edited by Juliette Wells

By Jane Austen
Introduction by Juliette Wells
Edited by Juliette Wells

By Jane Austen
Introduction by Juliette Wells
Edited by Juliette Wells

By Jane Austen
Introduction by Juliette Wells
Edited by Juliette Wells

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Jun 28, 2011 | ISBN 9780143106289

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Jun 28, 2011 | ISBN 9781101535288

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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.

    Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who – at twenty-seven – is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years ago, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. When Anne and Frederick meet again, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of her rejection. A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Austen’s last completed novel is also a deeply felt and relatable 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

    Jane Austen’s last completed novel, a brilliantly insightful story of regret, second chances, and the courage to follow our hearts
     
    Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried—by all accounts a spinster in her time—seemingly doomed to spend the rest of her life waiting on her image-obsessed father and extravagant older sister; attempting to maintain their once lavish, now dwindling family estate; and occasionally babysitting the children of her married younger sister.
     
    It wasn’t always this way, though. When Anne was nineteen, she was in love with and engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a man with no money and few prospects. Anne’s well-meaning family and friends convinced her that a young heiress like herself could do better, so she broke off the engagement. But when chance brings Wentworth and Anne together again eight years later, he is now an accomplished naval captain with an impressive fortune, and Anne must face her feelings for him that remain and consider how different her life could have been if only she hadn’t been so easily persuaded by others.

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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 | Regency Romance

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Jun 28, 2011 | 336 Pages | 5-5/8 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143106289

    Category: Classic Fiction | Historical Romance | Regency Romance

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Jun 28, 2011 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9781101535288
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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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