Jane Austen

Persuasion Jane Austen

Publisher Marketing: Anne Elliot, a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19-year-old, accepts a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. Clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and no family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter, Anne's snobbish father and her self-involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Even her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded Anne to break the engagement, for she, too, felt it was an imprudent match that was beneath her. Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. But Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars, and he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him. He publicly declares that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any appealing young woman with the exception of Anne Elliot. Although at the time of writing Persuasion, Austen was suffering from an illness, the novel still manages to be masterfully original in several ways. The first of Austen's novels to feature as the central character a woman who, by the standards of the time, is past the first bloom of youth. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/28/2007 pg. 56 (EAN 9789626344361, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2006 pg. 34 (EAN 9780679409861, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 722 (EAN 9780679409861, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 24 (EAN 9780679409861, Hardcover) Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 876 (EAN 9780679409861, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 28 (EAN 9780679409861, Hardcover) Ingram Paperback Advance 10/01/1999 pg. 49 (EAN 9780812565881, Mass Market Paperbound) Contributor Bio:  Austen, Jane Jane Austen s (1775-1817) works have enjoyed a renewed popularity in the last year with the film release of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility - both critically acclaimed. Sir Walter Scott said, Jane Austen had that exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting.