Persuasion

Resumen del libro

Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank.

What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, "Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Jane Austen (Steventon, 1775 - Winchester, 1817) es una de las figuras más destacadas de la narrativa inglesa. Aunque su nombre era conocido en algunos círculos aristocráticos, sus primeros títulos tuvieron que aparecer de forma anónima. Solo a partir de la publicación póstuma de x{0026}lt;i La abadía de Northangerx{0026}lt;/i y, precisamente, de x{0026}lt;i Persuasiónx{0026}lt;/i (en 1818), su hermano Henry reveló la identidad de la autora de x{0026}lt;i Sentido y sensibilidadx{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i Orgullo y prejuiciox{0026}lt;/i , x{0026}lt;i Emmax{0026}lt;/i o x{0026}lt;i Mansfield Parkx{0026}lt;/i . El éxito de su obra responde seguramente a lo que sir Walter Scott llamó el talento más prodigioso que se haya visto para describir los sentimientos y las relaciones sentimentales .x{0026}lt;/p