Persuasion (1817) is the final novel written by English author Jane Austen-and the first to be attributed to her name. Persuasion was published posthumously to widespread critical acclaim, and has since been recognized as an understated and mature work of fiction from one of history's finest writers...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and h...

Persuasion is the last completed novel by Jane Austen and was published posthumously in 1818 - curiously together with her first novel Northanger Abbey. The link to Northanger Abbey is due to the fact that the stories of both novels are set partly in Bath and deal with the superficial life of this f...

Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is growing content with her uneventful lifestyle, a long-lost flame re-enters the picture -- now as the beau of her significantly younger cousin. Anne is now faced w...

Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is growing content with her uneventful lifestyle, a long-lost flame re-enters the picture -- now as the beau of her significantly younger cousin. Anne is now faced w...

Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to get out of debt, rents their home to an Admiral. The brother of the Admiral's wife, Captain Frederick Wentworth, had been engaged to Anne years earlier and now they meet again. Both are still single and unattached. This sets th...

Sem'ya molodoj anglichanki Enn Eliot, okazavshis' v zatrudnitel'nom finansovom polozhenii sdaet svoe pomest'e v Killinch-holl i pereezzhaet v nebol'shoj kurortnyj gorodok Bat. Novye hozyaeva pomest'ya sostoyat v krovnom rodstve s kapitanom Frederikom Uentuortom, kotoryj neskol'ko let nazad byl pomol...

Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is growing content with her uneventful lifestyle, a long-lost flame re-enters the picture -- now as the beau of her significantly younger cousin. Anne is now faced w...

Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The...

Persuasion is the last novel completed by Jane Austen. It was published along with Northanger Abbey at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The novel was published on December 20, 1817, although the title page is dated 1818.

The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of tw...

Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The...

Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. - The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt. They rent their home to an Admiral and...

"All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."
Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is well past the bloom of her youth. Having been persuaded by her friends and family to break off he...

Cecilia Toussaint nos regala su voz y magnífica narración para contarnos Persuasión, la última novela de Jane Austen.
Publicada póstumamente en 1818, presenta un cuadro de familia sumamente austeniano: un viudo pomposo que sólo lee el baronetario, una hija soltera llena de pretensiones, una hija...

Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. - The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt. They rent their home to an Admiral and...

Anne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first and only love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. When their paths finally cross again, Anne finds herself slighted and all traces of their former intimacy gone.

As the pair continue to share the same social circle, dramatic even...

Le dernier roman de plus connues des autrices anglaises, qui a inspiré la nouvelle série Netflix avec Dakota Johnson, Henry Golding et Cosmo Jarvis.
Anne Elliot est la deuxième fille de Sir Walter Elliot et le membre le plus sensée de sa famille. À 19 ans, Anne est convaincue qu'il lui vaut mieux...

PERSUASION is a tale of love and marriage, told with the irony and insight that sets Jane Austen's work apart. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and separated years before. The story of how their reunion forces a recognition of the false values and people that drove them apart gives PERSUAS...

"Persuasion" est un roman publié en 1818, à titre posthume. Il raconte l'histoire d'Anne Elliot, jeune Anglaise de vingt-sept ans, qui retrouve par hasard Frederick Wenworth dont elle a refusé la demande en mariage quelques années plus tôt. À l'époque, la jeune fille s'était laissée persuadée qu'une...

Veuf et père de trois filles, le baronnet Walter Elliot est ruiné. Il doit laisser sa propriété en location pour se retirer à Bath. Sa fille Elisabeth le suit tandis que ses deux autres filles restent dans la région, Anne toujours célibataire à 28 ans trouvant refuge chez sa soeur Mary. Les nouveaux...

This version includes a detailed introductory annotation on how the book and the plot were created.

"'Persuasion" represents the ripest development of Jane Austen's powers, that latest phase of her thoughts and feelings. It is a novel which, while not wanting in the several excellences of...

Ésta es la última novela de la escritora inglesa Jane Austen que falleció en 1817, probablemente afectada por la enfermedad de Addison. En ella nos presenta a Anne (Ana), hija de Sir Walter Elliot, hombre vanidoso y demasiado preocupado de las apariencias como para ver lo que sucede a su alrededor. ...

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 fortunenor rank. What happens when they encounter each othe...

Ésta es la última novela de la escritora inglesa Jane Austen que falleció en 1817, probablemente afectada por la enfermedad de Addison. En ella nos presenta a Anne (Ana), hija de Sir Walter Elliot, hombre vanidoso y demasiado preocupado de las apariencias como para ver lo que sucede a su alrededor. ...

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 fortunenor rank. What happens when they encounter each othe...

Ésta es la última novela de la escritora inglesa Jane Austen que falleció en 1817, probablemente afectada por la enfermedad de Addison. En ella nos presenta a Anne (Ana), hija de Sir Walter Elliot, hombre vanidoso y demasiado preocupado de las apariencias como para ver lo que sucede a su alrededor. ...

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 fortunenor rank. What happens when they encounter each othe...

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 fortunenor rank. What happens when they encounter each othe...

Ésta es la última novela de la escritora inglesa Jane Austen que falleció en 1817, probablemente afectada por la enfermedad de Addison. En ella nos presenta a Anne (Ana), hija de Sir Walter Elliot, hombre vanidoso y demasiado preocupado de las apariencias como para ver lo que sucede a su alrededor. ...

Ésta es la última novela de la escritora inglesa Jane Austen que falleció en 1817, probablemente afectada por la enfermedad de Addison. En ella nos presenta a Anne (Ana), hija de Sir Walter Elliot, hombre vanidoso y demasiado preocupado de las apariencias como para ver lo que sucede a su alrededor. ...

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 fortunenor rank. What happens when they encounter each othe...

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 fortunenor rank. What happens when they encounter each othe...

Persuasion is the last novel written by Jane Austen before her death in 1817. (It was published in December of that year.) Set partially in Bath, a city with which Austen was intimately acquainted, Persuasion is the story of Anne Elliot, whose rejection of the handsome yet unsuitable naval office...

Eight years ago, Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth fell head over heels in love. But Anne's snobbish family put a stop to their engagement, believing the young naval captain wasn't good enough for her. Pretty, intelligent Anne soon realises it was a terrible mistake, and spends her twenties in the...

Posthumously published novel. According to Wikipedia: "Jane Austen (1775 - 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English l...

Jane Austen was an English novelist best known for her novels criticising the social institutions of her time, such as marriage and wealth.
"Persuasion", one of her masterpieces, was published posthumously in 1817. Unlike her novel "Northanger Abbey", with which it was published, "Persuasion" i...

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The final novel by the acclaimed writer places heroine Anne Elliot, a woman of integrity and deep emotion, against the brutality and hypocrisy of Regency England.

Veuf et père de trois filles, le baronnet Walter Eliot est ruiné. Il doit laisser sa propriété en location pour se retirer à Bath. Sa fille Elisabeth le suit tandis que ses deux autres filles restent dans la région, Anne toujours célibataire à 28 ans trouvant refuge chez sa soeur Mary. Les nouvea...

Sometimes, the deepest love is the one we let go...

Persuasion is Jane Austen's final completed novel-and her most emotionally mature work. At its heart is Anne Elliot, a woman of elegance, sensitivity, and quiet strength, who once gave up the man she loved to please her family. Eight yea...