Persuasion Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 1605120073 ISBN-13: 9781605120072 Publisher: Akasha Classics
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2008 Annotation: After the man whose proposal she had rejected returns from his long military tour at sea, Anne Elliot is forced to face the decision she had made eight years before, along with the man shes never stopped loving. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Collections |
Dewey: FIC |
Age Level: 7-10 |
Grade Level: 2-5 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (1.00 lbs) 252 pages |
Features: Dust Cover |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 50678 Reading Level: 12.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 19.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Persuasion, by Jane Austen - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed naturally into pity and contempt as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last century; and there, if every other leaf were powerless, he could read his own history with an interest which never failed. This was the page at which the favourite volume always opened: |
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