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Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen.It was published on 20 December 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, six months after her death, although the title page is dated 1818.
Anne Elliot is the protagonist of Jane Austen's sixth and last completed novel, Persuasion (1817).. Anne Elliot was persuaded, when she was 19 years old, to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a promising young lieutenant in the Royal Navy but a commoner without fortune, and she has never married.
Jane Austen (/ ˈ ɒ s t ɪ n, ˈ ɔː s t ɪ n / OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
Austen wrote six full-length novels before she died: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816) – while Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were ...
Articles relating to the novel Persuasion (1817) by Jane Austen, and its adaptations. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Marriage is a major theme in the novels of Jane Austen, especially Pride and Prejudice. Offering a critical view of marriages of convenience —commonplace during her time—and even a satirical take on marriages driven by financial considerations, Austen provides her main characters with love marriages, the typical conclusion of fairy tales ...
World's Best Reading is a series of classic books published by Reader's Digest beginning in 1982. ... Jane Austen: 1984: ISBN 0-89577 ... Persuasion: Jane Austen ...
Jane Austen completed the manuscript for “Persuasion” in 1816, the year before her death. But even then, more than 200 years ago, she anticipated the conversation Hollywood is having today ...