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Persuasion

An Annotated Edition
By Jane Austen
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Persuasion, Jane Austen's final completed novel, tells the poignant story of Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth, whose broken engagement and enduring love lead them through a journey of separation and reunion. Set against a richly illustrated backdrop of early 19th-century society, this passionate and introspective tale explores themes of loneliness, second chances, and the complexities of human emotion.
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This annotated and illustrated edition is ideal for Jane Austen enthusiasts, literary scholars, and readers seeking a deeper understanding of Austen's work and its historical context. It also suits first-time readers who appreciate elegant storytelling coupled with insightful commentary.

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This richly illustrated annotated edition brings unmatched vitality to Austen’s most passionate and introspective love story. Commentary alongside the text explains difficult allusions, while the Introduction explicates the novel’s central conflicts as well as its relationship to Austen’s other works and to those of her contemporaries.

Robert Morrison's new annotated edition of Persuasion is terrific: thorough, scrupulous, and thoughtful. It is a worthy addition to the wonderful Harvard series of annotated volumes, likely to be long read and much enjoyed by Austen enthusiasts. -- Patricia Meyer Spacks Readers who know Pride and Prejudice and Emma very well, can on encountering or re-encountering Austen's final novel find it disconcerting and disorienting. Fortunately, they are now well served by the thorough and thoughtful annotation in Persuasion: An Annotated Edition. -- Deidre Lynch, University of Toronto

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Published posthumously with Northanger Abbey in 1817, Persuasion crowns Jane Austen's remarkable career. It is her most passionate and introspective love story. This richly illustrated and annotated edition brings her last completed novel to life with previously unmatched vitality.

In the same format that so rewarded readers of Pride and Prejudice: An Annotated Edition, it offers running commentary on the novel, conveniently placed alongside Austen's text, to explain difficult words, allusions, and contexts, while bringing together critical observations and scholarship for an enhanced reading experience. The abundance of colour illustrations allows the reader to see the characters, locations, clothing, and carriages of the novel, as well as the larger political and historical events that shape its action.

In his introduction, distinguished scholar Robert Morrison examines the broken engagement between Anne Elliot and Frederick Wentworth, and the ways in which they wander from one another even as their enduring feelings draw them steadily back together. His notes constitute the most sustained critical commentary ever brought to bear on the novel and explicate its central conflicts as well as its relationship to Austen's other works, and to those of her major contemporaries, including Lord Byron, Walter Scott, and Maria Edgeworth.

Specialists, Janeites, and first-time readers alike will treasure this annotated and beautifully illustrated edition, which does justice to the elegance and depth of Jane Austen's time-bound and timeless story of loneliness, missed opportunities, and abiding love.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780674049741

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 November 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: The Belknap Press

Edition: Annotated edition

Illustration: 102 color illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Robert Morrison

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 1179g

Pages: 360

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Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Jane Austen Literary Fiction

About the Author

Robert Morrison is Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.

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