Jane Austen's Persuasion - Couverture souple

Wiltshire, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911187317 ISBN 13 : 9781911187318

Editeur : Connell Guides, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Persuasion was first published in 1818, after Jane Austen s death. The novel was hardly reviewed at all when it appeared, but over time has become probably the favourite Austen book after Pride and Prejudice. One was written when Austen was a young, marriageable woman, the other when she was in her forties, and it features a heroine who, at twenty-seven, could in those days be destined, like Austen herself, to life as a spinster. The atmosphere of the two books is quite different, like the social world they depict one light and bright and sparkling as Jane Austen herself called it, the other more sombre, shadowed by several deaths, and sometimes gentle and sometimes savage in its irony. But Persuasion has endeared itself to readers because the romance it celebrates takes place so convincingly within a constrict- ing and believable social world. It s a love story for adults.

Biographie de l'auteur

Professor John Wiltshire is Emeritus Professor of English at La Trobe University, Australia. His work on Jane Austen includes the Cambridge edition of Mansfield Park (2005), and the books Jane Austen and the Body: The Picture of Health (1992), Recreating Jane Austen (2001) Jane Austen: Introductions and Inventions (2003), and The Cinematic Jane Austen (2009).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Connell Guides
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1911187317
• ISBN 13: 9781911187318
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 116