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Persuasion
Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author)

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 ISBN: 1508638284     ISBN-13: 9781508638285
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE: $10.63  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Psychological
Dewey: FIC
Lexile Measure: 840(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.24" H x 8.5" W x 11" L (0.63 lbs) 116 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Topical - Family
- Chronological Period - 1800-1850
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 50678
Reading Level: 12.0   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 19.0
 
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Publisher Description:
Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. She died, at age 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December of that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805. Besides the theme of persuasion, the novel evokes other topics, such as the Royal Navy, in which two of Jane Austen's brothers ultimately rose to the rank of admiral. As in Northanger Abbey, the superficial social life of Bath
 
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