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Persuasion

by Jane Austen
language: english
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, March of 2003 ‧
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At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen’s last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
In her introduction, Gillian Beer discusses Austen’s portrayal of the double-edged nature of persuasion and the clash between old and new worlds. This edition also includes a new chronology and full textual notes.

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Property Description
ISBN: 9780141439686
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Release Date: March of 2003
Language: English
Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 15 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 288
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Romance
Books in English > Fiction > Fiction
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780141439686
Recommended Minimum Age: Not applicable

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jane Austen

Uma das maiores referências da literatura inglesa, Jane Austen (1775-1817) marcou a passagem do Neoclassicismo para o Romantismo. Aos 15 anos escreveu o seu primeiro romance, publicado postumamente em 1922.

Na sua produção literária, distinguem-se habitualmente dois grandes momentos de criação. O primeiro, entre meados da década de 1790, corresponde à escrita das primeiras versões de Sensibilidade e Bom Senso – então intitulada Elinor and Marianne –, de Orgulho e Preconceito – originalmente First Impressions – e de Northanger Abbey – inicialmente chamada Susan. O segundo, já no período de maturidade em Chawton, começa com a revisão e publicação desses primeiros romances e prossegue com a escrita de Mansfield Park, Emma e Persuasão, o seu último romance completo.

Estas obras representam apenas uma parte das cerca de 35 obras e textos de Jane Austen, entre romances, novelas breves, juvenilia, sátiras e fragmentos inacabados.

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