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Persuasion / Jane Austen ; edited with an introduction and notes by Gillian Beer.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 (Author). Beer, Gillian. (Added Author).

Summary:

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 naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend La.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0141439688
  • ISBN: 9780141439686
  • ISBN: 1593083580
  • Physical Description: xxxvii, 250 pages ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: London ; Penguin Books, 2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page xxxv).
Formatted Contents Note:
Penguin edition of the novels of Jane Austen -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Further reading -- Novels of Jane Austen -- Note on the text -- Persuasion -- Volume one -- Volume two -- Emendations to the text -- Notes.
Target Audience Note:
1120L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 12 19 50678.
Subject: Motherless families > Fiction.
Rejection (Psychology) > Fiction.
Ship captains > Fiction.
Young women > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Romance fiction.

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