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Persuasion

Persuasion

by Jane Austen
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About this book

'All the privilege I claim for my own sex...is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.'. Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen's last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple love-story. She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me': Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had for ever put an end to such a prospect.

Book Details

ISBN13 9781853260568
ISBN10 1853260568
Series/Work OL66544W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Wordsworth Editions
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

823/.7 Armed Forces, fiction Austen, jane , 1775-1817 Austen, jane, 1775-1817 British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) Courtship Courtship, fiction Družbene razmere Dysfunctional families Dysfunctional families, fiction Elliot, anne , 1787- England, fiction England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction English literature English Manuscripts Facsimiles Fiction Fiction, general Fiction, historical, general Fiction, psychological

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