Jane Austen: Persuasion
Persuasion
Buch
- Penguin Books Ltd (UK), 04/2012
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780141198835
- Bestellnummer: 1700030
- Umfang: 255 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2012
- Gewicht: 189 g
- Maße: 197 x 131 mm
- Stärke: 15 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.4.2012
- Serie: The Penguin English Library
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Kurzbeschreibung
Anne Elliot's youthful bloom has faded and she has few romantic prospects, having being persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth eight years earlier when he was a naval captain with neither rank nor fortune. But now he has returned and Anne, and sees the possibility of a second chance for happiness.Klappentext
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 ...
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