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Persuasion

Name: Persuasion
Brand: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780785850090
Price: 39.99 NZD
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By Jane Austen

Series: Chartwell Deluxe Editions

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Cherish Jane Austen's most soulful romance with this display-worthy edition featuring a foil-embossed, faux-leather cover. Published after Jane Austen's death in 1817, Persuasion is a romantic tale of love, loss, and redemption. This poignant novel tells the story of twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot, who is resigned to... Read More

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Cherish Jane Austen's most soulful romance with this display-worthy edition featuring a foil-embossed, faux-leather cover.

Published after Jane Austen's death in 1817, Persuasion is a romantic tale of love, loss, and redemption. This poignant novel tells the story of twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot, who is resigned to an unhappy fate and forced to move with her family to humbler lodgings when an old, lost love reenters her life.

This collectible edition of Persuasion features:

An introduction by English professor Deborah Lutz
A gorgeous faux-leather cover with foil-embossed designs
Unabridged text

For lovers of slow-burn romances, quiet heroines, Regency-era charm, and classic literature, this luxe edition makes a timeless addition to any home library.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780785850090

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 19 November 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Chartwell Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 146.0mm

Height: 191.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 280

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About the Author

Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the British middle class, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics, though her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Although Jane Austen wrote from her teenage years into her thirties, her most notable writing was done from 1811 until 1816. During this period, she wrote and extensively revised three major novels and began a fourth, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816). She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but she died before completing it at the age of 41.

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