Persuasion
Publisher: Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press)
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780199535552
Description: Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with no fortune, ancestry, or prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Note on the text; title: Select bibliography; title: A chronology of Jane Austen; title: Persuasion.; title: Biographical notice of the author / Henry Austen; title: Volume I; title: Volume II; title: Appendixes.; title: The original ending of Persuasion; title: Rank and social status; title: Dancing; title: Austen and the Navy; title: Textual notes; title: Explanatory notes