PERSUASION (PENGUIN CLASSICS)

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, ""Persuasion"" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities."retension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. In her introduction, Gillian Beer discusses Austen's portrayal of the double-edged nature of persuasion and the clash between old and new worlds. This edition also includes a new chronology and full textual notes. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers. Austen began writing at a young age, embarking on what is possibly her best-known work, ""Pride and Prejudice"", at the age of 22. She was the author of ""Sense and Sensibility"", ""Pride and Prejudice"", ""Emma"", ""Persuasion"", ""Mansfield Park"" and ""Northanger Abbey"". If you liked ""Persuasion"", you may enjoy George Eliot's ""Middlemarch"", also available in ""Penguin Classics"". ""The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal"". (Virginia Woolf)."