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Persuasion

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Author(s):Jane Austen
Illustrator(s):Edward Ardizzone
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
Year Published: circa 1963
Type: Hardcover
Genre: British
Families
Fiction - novel
Humorous
Age Range: Ages 13-18: Young Adult
Pages: 290
ISBN-10: 0192503561
ISBN-13: 9780192503565
LCCN:
OCLC: 222879487

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Persuasion is considered by many to be its author’s greatest work. Anne Elliot ‘with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character,which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding’ is burdened with a father and older sister given over to self-love and fashion.

Persuaded in the first flowering of her young womanhood to give up her engagement to a young naval commander with no prospects, she is forced now to see him rich and courting her brother-in-law’s younger sisters. This is the World’s Classics edition with a dust jacket by Ardizzone. This copy was printed in 1963.

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