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1) Persuasion
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"Published one year after its author's death in 1818, "Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. On its most basic level, the book is a love story. On another level, it is a deft exploration of human foibles and social flux. Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a navel officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement...
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Persuasion: "Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Austen wrote of her, 'She is almost too good for me.' Persuasion is the story of Anne and Captain Wentworth and their long awaited union. The world of country gentry in Regency England serves as a setting while portraying the many aspects of proper society - its failings and humor"--Container. Pride and prejudice: "A delightful novel about 'how girls catch husbands.'...
5) Persuasión
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La historia trata sobre Anne Elliot, una joven inglesa de veintisiete años, cuya familia se traslada para abaratar sus gastos y reducir sus deudas alquilando su casa a un almirante y su esposa. El hermano de su esposa, el capitán de la Armada Frederick Wentworth, estaba comprometido con Anne en 1806, pero el compromiso se rompió cuando sus amigos y familiares "persuadieron" a Anne para que terminara su relación. Anne y el Capitán Wentworth, solteros...
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