Description
Written in her final illness, Persuasion is Jane Austen's finest novel
Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her friend Louisa. In her final novel, Jane Austen tells the story of a love that endures the tests of time and society with humor, insight, and tenderness.
Author: Jane Austen
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 11/01/2014
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 7.06h x 5.32w x 0.81d
ISBN13: 9780099589327
ISBN10: 009958932X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Romance | General
About the Author
Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.