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Persuasion

by Jane Austen ยท Paperbackยท 304 pages
Heroine
A ship captain in her 30s
Setting
England
Era
Historical
Series
Oxford World's Classics Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)
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Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future. Anne Elliot seems to have given up...

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Author
Jane Austen
Format
Paperback
Pages
304
Published
May 15, 2008
Language
ENG- English
ISBN
9780199535552
Series
Oxford World's Classics Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)

About the author

Jane Austen

Deidre Shauna Lynch is the author of The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (1998) and editor of Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees (2000). an anthology of critical essays on the history of Austen's readerships.

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