Jane Austen PERSUASION (Jane Austen Classic Collection #6) (Seven Classic Novels Series)
This was Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished EMMA, completing it in August, 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; PERSUASION was published in December of that year (but dated 1818). PERSUASION is connected with NORTHANGER ABBEY not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together two years later, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable health resort with which Jane Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805. More than seven years prior to the events in the novel, Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome young naval officer named Frederick Wentworth, who is intelligent and ambitious, but poor. Sir Walter, Anne's father and lord of the family estate of Kellynch, and her older sister Elizabeth are dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he is not distinguished enough for their family. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's deceased mother, persuades her to break off the match. Now, aged 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former fiancé when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth, now a captain, is wealthy from wartime victories in the Royal Navy and from prize-money for capturing enemy ships. However, he has not forgiven Anne for her rejection of him.
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Jane Austen PERSUASION (Jane Austen Classic Collection #6) (Seven Classic Novels Series)
This was Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished EMMA, completing it in August, 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; PERSUASION was published in December of that year (but dated 1818). PERSUASION is connected with NORTHANGER ABBEY not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together two years later, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable health resort with which Jane Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805. More than seven years prior to the events in the novel, Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome young naval officer named Frederick Wentworth, who is intelligent and ambitious, but poor. Sir Walter, Anne's father and lord of the family estate of Kellynch, and her older sister Elizabeth are dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he is not distinguished enough for their family. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's deceased mother, persuades her to break off the match. Now, aged 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former fiancé when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth, now a captain, is wealthy from wartime victories in the Royal Navy and from prize-money for capturing enemy ships. However, he has not forgiven Anne for her rejection of him.
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Jane Austen PERSUASION (Jane Austen Classic Collection #6) (Seven Classic Novels Series)
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BN ID: | 2940012350213 |
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Publisher: | Ryetown Classics |
Publication date: | 04/01/2011 |
Series: | Jane Austen Classic Collection , #6 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 457 KB |
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