



While Pride and Prejudice will always remain my personal favorite (I am biased I fall for Lizzy’s wit and spirit every time), Persuasion offers a different display of Austen’s skills as a mature novelist, and my re-reading of it was greatly enriched by Shapard’s annotations. Booktopia has The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austen.

Buy a discounted Paperback of The Annotated Persuasion online from Australias leading online bookstore. Yet the same heroine, Anne Elliot, who has 'the power of loving, when all hope is gone' is also one of Austen’s most self-controlled heroines. The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austen 9780307390783 Booktopia Booktopia has The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austen. It is the most interior (by which I mean, so much of the action occurs in the thoughts and emotions of the main characters) of Austen’s novels, and has the most intensely emotional climax of any of her works. Persuasion is not as brilliant, sparkling, and sublimely polished as Pride and Prejudice, but it is more subtle. Lesser known, probably less read, than Pride and Prejudice, and generally considered to be less polished due to Austen’s illness and death during its composition, it is nevertheless the favorite Austen novel of many an English professor and Austenite. Shapard, who was responsible for the wonderful Annotated Pride and Prejudice in 2007, has now turned his thoughtful scholarly talents to Persuasion, Jane Austen's last complete novel. Shapard's delightfully entertaining edition brings Austen's novel of second chances vividly to life.ĭieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden."David M. Persuasion is Jane Austens last completed novel, finished less than one year before her 1817 death. An introduction, a bibliography, and a detailed chronology of events Packed with all kinds of illuminating information-from what Bath and Lyme looked like at the time to how "bathing machines" at seaside resorts were used to how Wentworth could have made a fortune from the Napoleonic Wars-David M.Citations from Austen's life, letters, and other writings.Here is the complete text of Persuasion with hundreds of annotations on facing pages, including: From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen's Persuasion that makes the beloved novel an even more satisfying and fulfilling read.
