Persuasion

by Jane Austen

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'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story. She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had for ever put an end to such a prospect.
  • ISBN10 0679601910
  • ISBN13 9780679601913
  • Publish Date 28 November 1995 (first published 4 April 1818)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 18 October 2003
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Random House USA Inc
  • Imprint Random House Inc
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 184
  • Language English