Persuasion
Contributors: Janet Todd (Editor); Antje Blank (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 28, 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, England & New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780521824187
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: Literature: Texts; General; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Literary Collections / General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Fiction; Motherless families; Problem families; Rejection (Psychology)
First sentence: SIR WALTER ELLIOT, of Kellynch-hall, in Somerset-shire, 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.
Notes: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen