Persuasion - Jane Austen (Buch)

Jane Austen

Persuasion

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With an introduction and Notes by Deidre Sh. Lynch

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Oxford University Press, 04/2008
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-13: 9780199535552
Bestellnummer: 2050259
Umfang: 249 Seiten
Nummer der Auflage: 08000
Auflage: New edition
Copyright-Jahr: 2008
Gewicht: 214 g
Maße: 195 x 130 mm
Stärke: 18 mm
Erscheinungstermin: 15.4.2008
Serie: Oxford World's Classics
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!

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Kurzbeschreibung

Having been persuaded to view the match as imprudent, Anne Elliot broke off her engagement to a naval officer with no prospects. Seven years later, when they meet again, Anne has the chance to recover the happiness she had forgone. This new edition examines Persuasion against the background of the Napoleonic Wars and includes fuller notes and appendices on social rank, dancing, and the Navy.

Beschreibung

'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.'
Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances.
Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future.
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Klappentext

Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the future. Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories. More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither fortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in second chances. Jane Austen's last completed novel features a heroine much older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and presents a more intimate and sober tale of a love found long after such happiness had been deemed hopeless. This edition includes an appendix giving the original ending of Persuasion.

Biografie

Born in 1775, Jane Austen published her many novels anonymously. Her work was not widely read until the late nineteenth century, and her fame only continued to grow from there. Known for her wit and sharp insight into social conventions, her novels about love, relationships, and society grow more popular year after year. She has earned her place in history as one of the most cherished writers in English literature.