Persuasion / Jane Austen.
"Published one year after its author's death in 1818, "Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. On its most basic level, the book is a love story. On another level, it is a deft exploration of human foibles and social flux. Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a navel officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is "unworthy." The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall, the Elliot estate. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Wiil Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love? Jane Austen once compared her writing to painting "on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square." Readers of "Persuasion" will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp-focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final finished work."--Jacket.
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- ISBN: 0760716803
- ISBN: 9780760716809
- ISBN: 9780760727812
- ISBN: 0760727813
- Physical Description: 248 pages ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Barnes and Noble, 1999.
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Subject: | England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction. Young women > England > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > England > Fiction. |
Genre: | Humorous fiction. Love stories. Humorous stories. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Allentown Public Library | AUSTEN, JANE (Text) | 34455006109926 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |