Persuasion : The Collector's Edition

Name: Persuasion : The Collector's Edition
Brand: Jane Austen
SKU: 9781009432771
Price: 15.67 GBP
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by Jane Austen

Title:

Author:

Jane Austen

Series (if any):

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Format:

Hardback

Number of pages:

288 pages, Worked examples or Exercises

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

ISBN-13:

9781009432771

EAN:

9781009432771

Classifications:

Literature: history and criticism

Weight (g):

542

Dimensions (mm):

209 x 133 x 18

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£15.67

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Description

A powerful portrait of grief triumphantly overcome, Persuasion is Austen's most passionate work: more than any previous novel, it concentrates on the intense inner life of the heroine. It opens with Anne Elliot lamenting lost love in a painful reversal of the courtship novel; it then transforms into a rapturous romantic comedy. Against a dysfunctional gentry family corroded by snobbishness, the novel pits professional self-made naval men marked by energy and domestic virtues: the heroine's future lies with them rather than with the landed class into which she was born. Persuasion is the only Austen novel that ends with the heroine lacking a settled home. Uniquely in Austen's oeuvre, an earlier part of the text survives. This edition includes a transcript, allowing readers to glimpse Austen's creative process. Prefaces and explanatory endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.