Book description
With an essay by Elizabeth Bowen
'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every
enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been
their lasting effect'
Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly
and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed
opportunities. It tells the story of Anne Elliot, who, persuaded to
break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not
successful enough, has never forgotten him. When he returns, he brings
with him a tantalizing second chance of happiness ...
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in
English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the
beginning of the First World War.
Jane Austen (1775-1817) is one of English literature's greatest
and most widely-read writers - one of the four 'great English
novelists' according to F. R. Leavis (along with George Eliot, Henry
James and Joseph Conrad). Her novels, both romantic fiction and
acerbic social commentary, include Sense & Sensibility,
Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park
and Northanger Abbey. Persuasion was her last
completed novel, published posthumously in 1818.
All six titles are published in the Penguin English Library.
