{"product_id":"persuasion-by-jane-austen-9781009432771","title":"Persuasion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA powerful portrait of grief triumphantly overcome, \u003cem\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/em\u003e is Austen's most passionate work: more than any previous novel, it concentrates on the intense inner life of the heroine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt opens with Anne Elliot lamenting lost love in a painful reversal of the courtship novel; it then transforms into a rapturous romantic comedy. Against a dysfunctional gentry family corroded by snobbishness, the novel pits professional self-made naval men marked by energy and domestic virtues: the heroine's future lies with them rather than with the landed class into which she was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/em\u003e is the only Austen novel that ends with the heroine lacking a settled home. Uniquely in Austen's oeuvre, an earlier part of the text survives. This edition includes a transcript, allowing readers to glimpse Austen's creative process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePrefaces and explanatory endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643164082412,"sku":"9781009432771","price":61.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/ea47c9b2da9926a26e591608ec06a3de.jpg?v=1779169476","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/persuasion-by-jane-austen-9781009432771","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}