Jane Austen

Persuasion Jane Austen

Publisher Marketing: The original and unabridged text of this Jane Austen classic. Ideal for students, Janeites and new readers alike. Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished "Emma" and completed it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December of that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to "Northanger Abbey" not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805. Besides the theme of persuasion, the novel evokes other topics, such as the Royal Navy, in which two of Jane Austen's brothers ultimately rose to the rank of admiral. As in Northanger Abbey, the superficial social life of Bath-well known to Austen, who spent several relatively unhappy and unproductive years there-is portrayed extensively and serves as a setting for the second half of the book. In many respects, Persuasion marks a break with Austen's previous works, both in the more biting, even irritable satire directed at some of the novel's characters and in the regretful, resigned outlook of its otherwise admirable heroine, Anne Elliot, in the first part of the story. Against this is set the energy and appeal of the Royal Navy, which symbolises for Anne and the reader the possibility of a more outgoing, engaged, and fulfilling life, and it is this worldview which triumphs for the most part at the end of the novel. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/28/2007 pg. 56 (EAN 9789626344361, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 34 (EAN 9780679409861, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 722 (EAN 9780679409861, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 24 (EAN 9780679409861, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 876 (EAN 9780679409861, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 28 (EAN 9780679409861, Hardcover) Ingram Paperback Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 49 (EAN 9780812565881, Mass Market Paperbound) Contributor Bio:  Austen, Jane Jane Austen (1775 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature.