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Persuasion

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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 lovestory tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.

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Product Details
Penguin Audiobooks
0141804564 / 9780141804569
CD-Audio
823.7
27/03/2003
United Kingdom
6 pages
129 x 145 mm, 224 grams
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