Persuasion

by Jane Austen

James Kinsley

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'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.' Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances. Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future.
  • ISBN10 0192802631
  • ISBN13 9780192802637
  • Publish Date 1 May 2004 (first published 4 April 1818)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 29 May 2008
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 304
  • Language English