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Persuasion
Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author), Drabble, Margaret (Introduction by), Johnson, Diane (Afterword by)
ISBN: 0451530837     ISBN-13: 9780451530837
Publisher: Signet Book
OUR PRICE:   $5.36  
Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats
Published: March 2008
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Annotation: After the man whose proposal she had rejected returns from his long military tour at sea, Anne Elliot is forced to face the decision she had made eight years before, along with the man shes never stopped loving. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Romance - Historical - Regency
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2008277388
Series: Signet Classics
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 4.1" W x 6.8" (0.40 lbs) 304 pages
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 50678
Reading Level: 12.0   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 19.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Featuring one of her most likeable characters, this sparkling love story set in a seaside resort is Jane Austen's final finished work.

"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison."

Since Anne Elliot eight years ago rejected the marriage proposal of Captain Wentworth, a penniless naval officer, she has resigned herself to a quiet life at home, tending to the imagined needs of her spoiled sisters and vain father. But when Captain Wentworth reappears in their midst, having made his fortune at sea, Anne must ask herself whether she made the right decision--or allowed herself to be persuaded against her heart.

Jane Austen's last completed novel and her most optimistic and romantic work, Persuasion gives full scope to the author's artistic powers, blending sharp wit and warm sympathy, stylistic brilliance and matchless insight. It is a story that affirms the lasting power of love and the rejuvenating power of hope.

With an Introduction by Margaret Drabble
and an Afterword by Diane Johnson