Persuasion

Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Jane Austen, Audrey Niffenegger, Colm Tóibín

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Penguin Classics
21 July 2011

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

To commemorate the bicentennial of its first publication and of Jane Austen's death, an enhanced Deluxe edition of Persuasion.

Jane Austen's beloved and subtly subversive final novel of romantic tension and second chances.

Now a motion picture from Netflix starring Dakota Johnson and Henry Golding, and a TikTok Book Club Pick.

Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who - at twenty-seven - is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years ago, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. When Anne and Frederick meet again, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of her rejection. A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Austen's last completed novel is also a deeply felt and relatable love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

By: Jane Austen
Illustrated by: Audrey Niffenegger
Introduction by: Colm Tóibín
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Penguin classics deluxe edition
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780143106289
ISBN 10: 0143106287
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 21 July 2011
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. She is also the author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey. Juliette Wellsis associate professor and chair of the English department at Goucher College. She is the author ofEverybody's Jane- Austen in the Popular Imagination and edited the 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Emma.

Reviews for Persuasion (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Critics, especially [recently], value <i>Persuasion</i> highly, as the author's 'most deeply felt fiction, ' 'the novel which in the end the experienced reader of Jane Austen puts at the head of the list.' . . . Anne wins back Wentworth and wins over the reader; we may, like him, end up thinking Anne's character 'perfection itself.' -from the Introduction by Judith Terry