Persuasion
Subtitle: an annotated edition
By: Jane Austen ; edited by Robert Morrison
Contributors: Morrison, Robert, 1961-
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780674049741
Subjects: Ship captains; Social life and customs; Young women; Motherless families; Rejection (Psychology); Fiction
Description: It offers running commentary on the novel (conveniently placed alongside Austen's text) to explain difficult words, allusions, and contexts, while bringing together critical observations and scholarship for an enhanced reading experience. The abundance of color illustrations allows the reader to see the characters, locations, clothing, and carriages of the novel, as well as the larger political and historical events that shape its action. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Note on the text; title: Introduction; title: Persuasion : an annotated edition.; title: Volume one (Chapters 1-12); title: Volume two (Chapters 1-12); title: Appendixes.; title: The original ending of Persuasion; title: "Biographical notice of the author" / by Henry Austen; title: Emendations and corrections to the 1818 text of Persuasion