Persuasion / Jane Austen ; edited by James Kinsley, with an introduction and notes by Deirdre Shauna Lynch.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.

Contributor:

• Lynch, Deidre.
• Kinsley, James.
• Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Elliot, Anne (Fictitious character), 1787---Fiction.
• Elliot, Anne (Fictitious character), 1787-.
• Motherless families--Fiction.
• Motherless families.
• England.
• Rejection (Psychology)--Fiction.
• Rejection (Psychology).
• Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
• Dysfunctional families.
• Ship captains--Fiction.
• Ship captains.
• First loves--Fiction.
• First loves.
• Young women--Fiction.
• Young women.
• England--Fiction.
• Great Britain. Royal Navy--Officers--History--19th century--Fiction.

Local Subjects:

• Great Britain. Royal Navy--Officers--History--19th century--Fiction.

Genre:

• Fiction.
• Psychological fiction.
• Love stories.

Penn Provenance:

• Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xlv, 249 pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later, his circumstances much improved.

Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Note on the text
• Select bibliography
• A chronology of Jane Austen
• Persuasion
• Biographical notice of the author / Henry Austen
• Volume I
• Volume II
• Appendix A. The original ending of Persuasion
• Appendix B. Rank and social status
• Appendix C. Dancing
• Appendix D. Austen and the navy
• Textual notes
• Explanatory notes.

Notes:

• Previous edition: 1998.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxv-xxxix).

ISBN:

• 0192802631
• 9780192802637

OCLC:

53393808

Online:

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description