Persuasion (Seasons Edition -- Summer)

Jane Austen

Harper Curated Classics, Jun 30, 2020 - Fiction - 304 pages

A fine exclusive edition of one of literature’s most beloved stories with full page call-outs with quotes from summer.

“He had seen you indeed, before he came to Bath, and admired you, but without knowing it was you. So says my historian, at least. Is this true? Did he see you last summer or autumn, ‘somewhere down in the west,’ to use her own words, without knowing it to be you?”

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer considered young enough for worthy 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 transpires when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Persuasion is, above all, a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

Persuasion (Seasons Edition--Summer) is one of four titles available in June 2020. The summer season will include Jane Eyre, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Wonderland Collection.

Contents

• Chapter 1: 1
• Chapter 2: 10
• Chapter 3: 17
• Chapter 4: 27
• Chapter 5: 34
• Chapter 6: 45
• Chapter 7: 57
• Chapter 8: 68
• Chapter 9: 79
• Chapter 10: 89
• Chapter 11: 102
• Chapter 12: 112
• Chapter 13: 130
• Chapter 14: 139
• Chapter 15: 148
• Chapter 16: 157
• Chapter 17: 165
• Chapter 18: 177
• Chapter 19: 191
• Chapter 20: 199
• Chapter 21: 211
• Chapter 22: 233
• Chapter 23: 252
• Chapter 24: 274

About the author

Jane Austen's life is striking for the contrast between the great works she wrote in secret and the outward appearance of being quite dull and ordinary. Austen was born in the small English town of Steventon in Hampshire, and educated at home by her clergyman father. She was deeply devoted to her family. For a short time, the Austens lived in the resort city of Bath, but when her father died, they returned to Steventon, where Austen lived until her death at the age of 41. Austen was drawn to literature early, she began writing novels that satirized both the writers and the manners of the 1790's. Her sharp sense of humor and keen eye for the ridiculous in human behavior gave her works lasting appeal. She is at her best in such books as Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), in which she examines and often ridicules the behavior of small groups of middle-class characters. Austen relies heavily on conversations among her characters to reveal their personalities, and at times her novels read almost like plays. Several of them have, in fact, been made into films. She is considered to be one of the most beloved British authors.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Persuasion (Seasons Edition -- Summer); Seasons Edition
• Author: Jane Austen
• Publisher: Harper Curated Classics, 2020
• ISBN: 0785239480, 9780785239482
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Romance / Clean & Wholesome; Fiction / Romance / Historical / Regency; Fiction / Small Town & Rural