# Persuasion

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- Book: [Persuasion](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-austen/persuasion) ([Persuasion.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-austen/persuasion.md))
- Authors: [Jane Austen](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-austen)
- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN: 978-10-0943-277-1
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2025-05-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

A powerful portrait of grief triumphantly overcome, Persuasion is Austen''s most passionate work: more than any previous novel, it concentrates on the intense inner life of the heroine. It 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. Persuasion 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. Prefaces and explanatory endnotes supplied by Janet Todd illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen''s world to life.