Persuasion
by Jane Austen, Gillian Beer
4.1
(663 ratings)289 pages1789Penguin Random HouseISBN 9781529962246
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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
- Penguin Random House
- Published
- 1789
- Pages
- 289
- ISBN
- 9781529962246
About Jane Austen
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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