Persuasion (Tor Classics)
Edition: 1st Tor edition
Publisher: Tor Classics
Published: October 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780812565881
Subjects: 19th century fiction; Classic fiction; Literature: Classics; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Classics; Fiction / Classics
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, as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century-and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed-this was the page at which the favourite volume always opened: