In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want Independent
Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the man she loved, Captain Wentworth. Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle and Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited. However, when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers and seems more interested in her friend Louisa. In this, her final novel, Jane Austen tells the story of a love that endures the tests of time and society with humour, insight and tenderness.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSS
VINTAGE CLASSICS AUSTEN SERIES - all six of Jane Austen s major novels, beautifully designed and introduced by our finest contemporary writers.
About the Author
Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.
Bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves and Talk to the Hand, Lynne Truss is a journalist, arts and book reviewer, sports columnist and a regular broadcaster for BBC s Radio 4. She s had two plays performed at the Edinburgh Festival, including Hell s Bells in 2012. Her latest book is Get Her Off The Pitch: How Sports Took Over My Life. Nine Lives is her fourth novel, and the first in over ten years.
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