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Persuasion

Persuasion

by Jane Austen
Title:
Persuasion
Author:
Jane Austen
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
216 pages
Publisher:
Repro India Limited
ISBN-13:
9789356560291
EAN:
9789356560291
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
362
Dimensions (mm):
216 x 140 x 16
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Price:£10.12
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27-year-old Anne Elliot is Austen's most grown-up female protagonist. Eight years before the story starts appropriately, she is cheerfully pledged to a marine official, Frederick Wentworth, however, she abruptly severs the commitment when convinced by her companion Lady Russell that such a match is contemptible. The separation produces in Anne a profound and enduring misgiving. When later Wentworth gets back from the ocean a rich and fruitful chief, he tracks down Anne's family near the precarious edge of monetary ruin and his sister an inhabitant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot domain. All the strain of the novel spins around one inquiry: Will Anne and Wentworth be brought together in their adoration? Jane Austen once contrasted her composition with painting on a tad of ivory, 2 inches square. Per users of Persuasion will find that neither her expertise for fragile, amusing perceptions of friendly custom, love, and marriage nor her capacity to apply a sharp center focal point to English habits and ethics has abandoned her in her last completed work

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