Persuasion
By: Jane Austen ; with an introduction by Margaret Drabble and a new afterward by Diane Johnson.
Publisher: Signet Classics
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780451530837
Subjects: Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction; Motherless families -- Fiction; Ship captains -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend La.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-298).