Persuasion [electronic resource]
Austen, Jane, 1775-18172006
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The abridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Jane Austen's classic tale of love and loss, Persuasion. Read by the actress Geraldine McEwan.At 27, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
Main title:
Persuasion [electronic resource] / Jane Austen
Author:
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817, AuthorMcEwan, Geraldine, Narrator
Edition:
Abridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Books Ltd, 2006
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Jane Austen, the daughter of a clergyman, was born in Hampshire in 1775, and later lived in Bath and the village of Chawton. As a child and teenager, she wrote brilliantly witty stories for her family's amusement, as well as a novella, Lady Susan. Her first published novel was Sense and Sensibility, which appeared in 1811 and was soon followed by Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma. Austen died in 1817, and Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously in 1818.
ISBN:
9780141807270
Language:
English
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BRN:
2900019
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