Persuasion

Informationen zum Autor Jane Austen was born in 1775 at Steventon! Hampshire. She was the seventh child of the local rector! and her life! by modern standards! was uneventful. In 1801 she moved with her parents to Bath but returned to Hampshire when her father died! settling in the village of Chawton. She remained there until 1817! when she moved to Winchester to be within easy reach of her doctor. She died that year! at age forty-one! and is buried in Winchester Cathedral! which also contains a plaque in honor of her memory. Four of her novels were published anonymously during her lifetime; two more! one of which was Persuasion! appeared posthumously. Klappentext This edition of Persuasion is an elegant, portable tale of love, loss, and redemption in which Jane Austen offers a stirring critique of the rigid social barriers of Regency-era Britain. Zusammenfassung This edition of Persuasion is an elegant, portable tale of love, loss, and redemption in which Jane Austen offers a stirring critique of the rigid social barriers of Regency-era Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Austen, Deborah Lutz
• Assisted by: Deborah Lutz (Introduction)
• Publisher: Race Point Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781631065088
• ISBN: 978-1-63106-508-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Knickerbocker Classics; Knickerbocker Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature