Persuasion
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(49 ratings)260 pages2013HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780007517909
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About this book
Persuasion tells the love story of Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, whose sister rents Miss Elliot's father's house, after the Napoleonic Wars come to an end. The story is set in 1814. The book itself is Jane Austen's last published book, published posthumously in December of 1818.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Published
- 2013
- Pages
- 260
- ISBN
- 9780007517909
- Language
- en
About Unknown Author
Jane Austen was an English writer. Although Austen was widely read in her lifetime, she published her works anonymously. The most urgent preoccupations of her bright, young heroines are courtship and marriage. Austen herself never married. Her best-known books include *Pride and Prejudice* (1813) and *Emma* (1816). Virginia Woolf called Austen "the most perfect artist among women.
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