Contains the complete text of Jane Austen's "Persuasion," in which Anne Elliot is persuaded by family and friends to send the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth away, but regrets her decision when he returns years later with improved circumstances; along with hundreds of annotations, explanations of historical context, citations from the author's life and other writings, definitions, literary comments, and more.
year: 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: austen, jane, 1775-1817, persuasion, young women, england, fiction, gentry, mate selection, ship captains, england, social life and customs, 19th century, fiction, regency fiction, love stories