Persuasion
Contributors: Margaret Drabble (Introduction)
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: 1996-08
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780451526380
First sentence: SIR WALTER ELLIOT, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt.