Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Persuasion de Jane Austen

Persuasion (Word Cloud Classics)

De (autor)
Notă Books Express:  5.00 · 2 note  
Notă GoodReads:
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 Mar 2013
No home library is complete without the classics! Persuasion is a keepsake to be read and treasured.

Published in 1818, Persuasion was Jane Austen’s last completed novel. In this compelling love story, Anne Elliott is unhappy and unmarried at twenty-seven. At the urging of her family, she broke her engagement to the man she loved eight years before because he was poor and didn’t have good family connections. When they meet again, he is wealthy, a captain in the navy, and looking for a wife, but he has not forgiven Anne for her rejection and resolves not to fall in love with her again. With a heat-burnished cover, foil stamping, and designed endpapers, the Word Cloud Classics edition of Persuasion is the perfect addition to any bookshelf!

 

About the Word Cloud Classics series:

Classic works of literature with a clean, modern aesthetic! Perfect for both old and new literature fans, the Word Cloud Classics series from Canterbury Classics provides a chic and inexpensive introduction to timeless tales. With a higher production value, including heat burnished covers and foil stamping, these eye-catching, easy-to-hold editions are the perfect gift for students and fans of literature everywhere.
Citește tot Restrânge
Toate formatele și edițiile
Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (105) 2297 lei  23-35 zile
  HarperCollins Publishers – 02 Jan 2020 2297 lei  23-35 zile
  Wordsworth Editions – June 1993 2901 lei  22-28 zile +331 lei  7-13 zile
  Oxford University Press – 17 Apr 2008 2987 lei  10-16 zile +739 lei  7-13 zile
  Bantam Books – April 1984 3151 lei  22-28 zile +343 lei  7-13 zile
  Penguin Books – 27 Mar 2003 3631 lei  23-34 zile +2220 lei  7-13 zile
  VINTAGE CLASSICS – August 2008 3647 lei  23-34 zile +1032 lei  7-13 zile
  Penguin Random House Group – 2001 3893 lei  3-5 săpt. +273 lei  10-17 zile
  HarperCollins Publishers – 07 Jul 2022 3992 lei  23-35 zile +1054 lei  7-13 zile
  Penguin Books – 26 Apr 2012 4491 lei  23-34 zile +1187 lei  7-13 zile
  Vintage Books USA – September 2007 4494 lei  3-5 săpt. +321 lei  13-21 zile
  VINTAGE CLASSICS – July 2014 4587 lei  23-34 zile +1328 lei  7-13 zile
  West Margin Press – 10 Dec 2020 4597 lei  23-35 zile +3150 lei  13-21 zile
  Alma Books COMMIS – 2016 4694 lei  22-28 zile +599 lei  7-13 zile
  – 4701 lei  3-5 săpt. +347 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 4763 lei  3-5 săpt. +353 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 4974 lei  3-5 săpt. +370 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 5093 lei  3-5 săpt. +379 lei  13-21 zile
  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 5102 lei  3-5 săpt. +381 lei  13-21 zile
  – 5247 lei  3-5 săpt. +393 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – September 2010 5335 lei  3-5 săpt. +400 lei  13-21 zile
  – 5424 lei  3-5 săpt. +407 lei  13-21 zile
  HarperCollins Publishers – 20 Sep 2011 5471 lei  3-5 săpt. +500 lei  13-21 zile
  SMK Books – 29 May 2009 5550 lei  3-5 săpt. +575 lei  13-21 zile
  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 5630 lei  3-5 săpt. +423 lei  13-21 zile
  Tribeca Books – September 2011 5656 lei  3-5 săpt. +426 lei  13-21 zile
  SWEET CHERRY PUBLISHING – 12 Sep 2019 5850 lei  22-28 zile +520 lei  7-13 zile
  Hythloday Press – 05 Apr 2014 5973 lei  3-5 săpt. +452 lei  13-21 zile
  Simon & Brown – 22 Oct 2018 5985 lei  3-5 săpt. +618 lei  13-21 zile
  CANTERBURY CLASSICS – 10 Mar 2013 6007 lei  23-35 zile
  CREATESPACE – 6395 lei  3-5 săpt. +485 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 6435 lei  3-5 săpt. +489 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 6534 lei  3-5 săpt. +497 lei  13-21 zile
  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 6554 lei  3-5 săpt. +499 lei  13-21 zile
  Editorium – April 2012 6630 lei  3-5 săpt. +695 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 6795 lei  3-5 săpt. +517 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 6795 lei  3-5 săpt. +517 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 6836 lei  3-5 săpt. +520 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 6850 lei  3-5 săpt. +523 lei  13-21 zile
  Lector House – 24 Jun 2019 6853 lei  3-5 săpt. +635 lei  13-21 zile
  Sterling Juvenile – 22 Jun 2023 6932 lei  3-5 săpt. +507 lei  13-21 zile
  – 6966 lei  3-5 săpt. +532 lei  13-21 zile
  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 6978 lei  3-5 săpt. +533 lei  13-21 zile
  EMPIRE BOOKS – November 2011 7062 lei  3-5 săpt. +540 lei  13-21 zile
  – 7118 lei  3-5 săpt. +534 lei  13-21 zile
  – 7188 lei  3-5 săpt. +549 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 7202 lei  3-5 săpt. +528 lei  13-21 zile
  Broadview Press – August 1998 7371 lei  22-28 zile
  Denton & White – 7643 lei  3-5 săpt. +587 lei  13-21 zile
  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 7692 lei  3-5 săpt. +590 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 7713 lei  3-5 săpt. +594 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 7875 lei  3-5 săpt. +606 lei  13-21 zile
  University of British Columbia Press – 25 Sep 2020 8031 lei  22-28 zile +571 lei  7-13 zile
  Tar & Feather Publishing – 17 Dec 2016 8104 lei  3-5 săpt. +854 lei  13-21 zile
  – 8276 lei  3-5 săpt. +638 lei  13-21 zile
  Lulu.Com – 28 May 2018 8335 lei  3-5 săpt. +779 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 8343 lei  3-5 săpt. +644 lei  13-21 zile
  TingleBooks – 29 Jul 2020 8346 lei  3-5 săpt. +782 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 8360 lei  3-5 săpt. +645 lei  13-21 zile
  – 8504 lei  3-5 săpt. +656 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 8606 lei  3-5 săpt. +636 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 8606 lei  3-5 săpt. +636 lei  13-21 zile
  Camel Publishing House – 05 Jul 2020 8615 lei  3-5 săpt. +911 lei  13-21 zile
  USA Public Domain Books – 05 Jul 2020 8615 lei  3-5 săpt. +911 lei  13-21 zile
  Barclays Public Books – 05 Jul 2020 8615 lei  3-5 săpt. +911 lei  13-21 zile
  Public Publishing – 05 Jul 2020 8615 lei  3-5 săpt. +911 lei  13-21 zile
  Barclays Public Books – 05 Jul 2020 8615 lei  3-5 săpt. +911 lei  13-21 zile
  Susan Publishing Ltd – 05 Jul 2020 8700 lei  3-5 săpt. +921 lei  13-21 zile
  Texas Public Domain – 05 Jul 2020 8700 lei  3-5 săpt. +921 lei  13-21 zile
  – 8758 lei  3-5 săpt. +666 lei  13-21 zile
  – 8769 lei  3-5 săpt. +665 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 8793 lei  3-5 săpt. +679 lei  13-21 zile
  Yorkshire Public Books – 05 Jul 2020 9218 lei  3-5 săpt. +977 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 9246 lei  3-5 săpt. +717 lei  13-21 zile
  – 9283 lei  3-5 săpt. +708 lei  13-21 zile
  Adelphi Press – 14 Jun 2018 9415 lei  3-5 săpt. +701 lei  13-21 zile
  1st World Publishing – 25 Jul 2013 9508 lei  3-5 săpt. +934 lei  13-21 zile
  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – 9600 lei  3-5 săpt. +746 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 9711 lei  3-5 săpt. +755 lei  13-21 zile
  Simon & Brown – 11 Nov 2018 9993 lei  3-5 săpt. +745 lei  13-21 zile
  Bottom of the Hill Publishing – June 2014 10264 lei  3-5 săpt. +974 lei  13-21 zile
  – 10462 lei  3-5 săpt. +816 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 10512 lei  3-5 săpt. +820 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 11471 lei  3-5 săpt. +898 lei  13-21 zile
  – 11499 lei  3-5 săpt. +1230 lei  13-21 zile
  1st World Library – 11660 lei  3-5 săpt. +1151 lei  13-21 zile
  Lulu.Com – 10 Mar 2020 12061 lei  3-5 săpt. +1147 lei  13-21 zile
  TREDITION CLASSICS – November 2011 12113 lei  3-5 săpt. +1304 lei  13-21 zile
  Delhi Open Books – 12 Jun 2020 12469 lei  3-5 săpt. +1186 lei  13-21 zile
  – 12487 lei  3-5 săpt. +962 lei  13-21 zile
  – 12808 lei  3-5 săpt. +1007 lei  13-21 zile
  CREATESPACE – 13014 lei  3-5 săpt. +979 lei  13-21 zile
  Lulu – 12 May 2013 14285 lei  3-5 săpt. +1370 lei  13-21 zile
  West Margin Press – 30 Aug 2022 19009 lei  3-5 săpt. +1447 lei  13-21 zile
  Outlook Verlag – 25 Sep 2019 26357 lei  3-5 săpt. +2019 lei  13-21 zile
  Martino Fine Books – 07 Dec 2011 3911 lei  6-8 săpt.
  NuVision Publications – 07 Aug 2007 7840 lei  38-44 zile
  LIGHTNING SOURCE INC – 05 Aug 2018 8080 lei  17-23 zile
  Bloomsbury Publishing – 04 Nov 1996 8193 lei  6-8 săpt. +5759 lei  13-21 zile
  SC Active Business Development SRL – 25 Apr 2017 8206 lei  38-44 zile
  Martino Fine Books – 26 Sep 2020 9779 lei  38-44 zile
  Sovereign – 08 Jul 2012 10581 lei  38-44 zile
  Lulu.Com – 18 Jun 2017 11005 lei  38-44 zile
  Echo Library – 22 Dec 2005 11123 lei  43-49 zile
  Wildhern Press – 15 Sep 2009 11155 lei  38-44 zile
  Cambridge University Press – 30 May 2013 12223 lei  44-56 zile +5444 lei  13-21 zile
Hardback (24) 4157 lei  3-5 săpt. +2317 lei  7-13 zile
  WORDSWORTH ED – 02 Sep 2020 5583 lei  1-2 zile
  Pan Macmillan – 19 Jul 2016 4157 lei  3-5 săpt. +2317 lei  7-13 zile
  Baker Street Press – November 2018 5208 lei  22-28 zile +550 lei  7-13 zile
  Flame Tree Publishing – 15 Oct 2019 5714 lei  22-28 zile +478 lei  7-13 zile
  EVERYMAN – 04 Jun 1992 6586 lei  23-34 zile +2108 lei  7-13 zile
  BOOKSALES INC – 20 Sep 2022 6712 lei  22-28 zile +1117 lei  7-13 zile
  chiltern publishing – 27 Sep 2018 8605 lei  22-28 zile +841 lei  7-13 zile
  Penguin Books – 03 Nov 2011 9071 lei  23-34 zile +2518 lei  7-13 zile
  West Margin Press – 24 Nov 2020 10104 lei  3-5 săpt. +754 lei  13-21 zile
  Chump Change – 11 Oct 2016 10473 lei  3-5 săpt. +1117 lei  13-21 zile
  Sterling Juvenile – 22 Jun 2023 11447 lei  3-5 săpt. +858 lei  13-21 zile
  Everyman's Library – June 1992 13361 lei  3-5 săpt. +1011 lei  13-21 zile
  SMK Books – 03 Apr 2018 13799 lei  3-5 săpt. +1487 lei  13-21 zile
  Akasha Classics – 30 May 2008 15082 lei  3-5 săpt. +1448 lei  13-21 zile
  Simon & Brown – 11 Nov 2018 16931 lei  3-5 săpt. +1286 lei  13-21 zile
  – 16975 lei  3-5 săpt. +1840 lei  13-21 zile
  1st World Publishing – 25 Jul 2013 17773 lei  3-5 săpt. +1781 lei  13-21 zile
  Lulu – 24 Dec 2015 19741 lei  3-5 săpt. +1907 lei  13-21 zile
  Outlook Verlag – 25 Sep 2019 42896 lei  3-5 săpt. +3182 lei  13-21 zile
  Cambridge University Press – 27 Jul 2006 48345 lei  23-35 zile
  Echo Library – 2007 15589 lei  43-49 zile
  Simon & Brown – 22 Oct 2018 16845 lei  38-44 zile
  Throne Classics – 28 May 2019 18513 lei  38-44 zile
  Blurb – 09 Jan 2019 19558 lei  38-44 zile
CD-Audio (1) 12405 lei  43-49 zile
  Audiogo – 2011 12405 lei  43-49 zile

Din seria Word Cloud Classics

Preț: 6007 lei

Preț vechi: 6675 lei
-10%

Puncte Express: 90
Preț estimativ în valută:
1156€ • 1251$ • 1018£

Carte disponibilă

Livrare economică 21 aprilie-03 mai

Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781607107354
ISBN-10: 160710735X
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 133 x 197 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția: 1st Edition
Editura: CANTERBURY CLASSICS
Colecția Canterbury Classics
Seria Word Cloud Classics

Recenzii de la cititorii Books Express

Citește tot Restrânge

Notă biografică

Born December 16, 1775, Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated authors of the English language. Her fiction is known for its witty satires on English society. Austen wrote anonymously during her life and wasn't widely recognized as a great English writer until after her death in 1817.

Extras

Chapter One


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:
ELLIOT OF KELLYNCH HALL

Walter Elliot, born March 1, 1760, married, July 15, 1784, Elizabeth, daughter of James Stevenson, Esq. of South Park, in the county of Gloucester; by which lady (who died 1800) he has issue Elizabeth, born June 1, 1785; Anne, born August 9, 1787; a still-born son, Nov. 5, 1789; Mary, born Nov. 20, 1791.

Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the printer's hands; but Sir Walter had improved it by adding, for the information of himself and his family, these words, after the date of Mary's birth-"married, Dec. 16, 1810, Charles, son and heir of Charles Musgrove, Esq. of Uppercross, in the county of Somerset,"-and by inserting most accurately the day of the month on which he had lost his wife.

Then followed the history and rise of the ancient and respectable family, in the usual terms: how it had been first settled in Cheshire; how mentioned in Dugdale-serving the office of High Sheriff, representing a borough in three successive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignity of baronet, in the first year of Charles II, with all the Marys and Elizabeths they had married; forming altogether two handsome duodecimo pages, and concluding with the arms and motto: "Principal seat, Kellynch Hall, in the county of Somerset," and Sir Walter's hand-writing again in this finale:

"Heir presumptive, William Walter Elliot, Esq., great grandson of the second Sir Walter."

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character: vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion.

His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very superior character to any thing deserved by his own. Lady Elliot had been an excellent woman, sensible and amiable; whose judgment and conduct, if they might be pardoned the youthful infatuation which made her Lady Elliot, had never required indulgence afterwards.-She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings, and promoted his real respectability for seventeen years; and though not the very happiest being in the world herself, had found enough in her duties, her friends, and her children, to attach her to life, and make it no matter of indifference to her when she was called on to quit them.-Three girls, the two eldest sixteen and fourteen, was an awful legacy for a mother to bequeath; an awful charge rather, to confide to the authority and guidance of a conceited, silly father. She had, however, one very intimate friend, a sensible, deserving woman, who had been brought, by strong attachment to herself, to settle close by her, in the village of Kellynch; and on her kindness and advice, Lady Elliot mainly relied for the best help and maintenance of the good principles and instruction which she had been anxiously giving her daughters.

This friend, and Sir Walter, did not marry, whatever might have been anticipated on that head by their acquaintance.-Thirteen years had passed away since Lady Elliot's death, and they were still near neighbours and intimate friends; and one remained a widower, the other a widow.

That Lady Russell, of steady age and character, and extremely well provided for, should have no thought of a second marriage, needs no apology to the public, which is rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not; but Sir Walter's continuing in singleness requires explanation.-Be it known then, that Sir Walter, like a good father, (having met with one or two private disappointments in very unreasonable applications) prided himself on remaining single for his dear daughter's sake. For one daughter, his eldest, he would really have given up any thing, which he had not been very much tempted to do. Elizabeth had succeeded, at sixteen, to all that was possible, of her mother's rights and consequence; and being very handsome, and very like himself, her influence had always been great, and they had gone on together most happily. His two other children were of very inferior value. Mary had acquired a little artificial importance, by becoming Mrs. Charles Musgrove; but Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister: her word had no weight; her convenience was always to give way;-she was only Anne.

To Lady Russell, indeed, she was a most dear and highly valued god-daughter, favourite and friend. Lady Russell loved them all; but it was only in Anne that she could fancy the mother to revive again.
A few years before, Anne Elliot had been a very pretty girl, but her bloom had vanished early; and as even in its height, her father had found little to admire in her, (so totally different were her delicate features and mild dark eyes from his own); there could be nothing in them now that she was faded and thin, to excite his esteem. He had never indulged much hope, he had now none, of ever reading her name in any other page of his favourite work. All equality of alliance must rest with Elizabeth; for Mary had merely connected herself with an old country family of respectability and large fortune, and had therefore given all the honour, and received none: Elizabeth would, one day or other, marry suitably.

It sometimes happens, that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost. It was so with Elizabeth; still the same handsome Miss Elliot that she had begun to be thirteen years ago; and Sir Walter might be excused, therefore, in forgetting her age, or, at least, be deemed only half a fool, for thinking himself and Elizabeth as blooming as ever, amidst the wreck of the good looks of every body else; for he could plainly see how old all the rest of his family and acquaintance were growing. Anne haggard, Mary coarse, every face in the neighbourhood worsting; and the rapid increase of the crow's foot about Lady Russell's temples had long been a distress to him.

Elizabeth did not quite equal her father in personal contentment. Thirteen years had seen her mistress of Kellynch Hall, presiding and directing with a self-possession and decision which could never have given the idea of her being younger than she was. For thirteen years had she been doing the honours, and laying down the domestic law at home, and leading the way to the chaise and four, and walking immediately after Lady Russell out of all the drawing-rooms and dining-rooms in the country. Thirteen winters' revolving frosts had seen her opening every ball of credit which a scanty neighbourhood afforded; and thirteen springs shewn their blossoms, as she travelled up to London with her father, for a few weeks' annual enjoyment of the great world. She had the remembrance of all this; she had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty, to give her some regrets and some apprehensions. She was fully satisfied of being still quite as handsome as ever; but she felt her approach to the years of danger, and would have rejoiced to be certain of being properly solicited by baronet-blood within the next twelvemonth or two. Then might she again take up the book of books with as much enjoyment as in her early youth; but now she liked it not. Always to be presented with the date of her own birth, and see no marriage follow but that of a youngest sister, made the book an evil; and more than once, when her father had left it open on the table near her, had she closed it, with averted eyes, and pushed it away.

She had had a disappointment, moreover, which that book, and especially the history of her own family, must ever present the remembrance of. The heir presumptive, the very William Walter Elliot, Esq. whose rights had been so generously supported by her father, had disappointed her.

She had, while a very young girl, as soon as she had known him to be, in the event of her having no brother, the future baronet, meant to marry him; and her father had always meant that she should. He had not been known to them as a boy, but soon after Lady Elliot's death Sir Walter had sought the acquaintance, and though his overtures had not been met with any warmth, he had persevered in seeking it, making allowance for the modest drawing back of youth; and in one of their spring excursions to London, when Elizabeth was in her first bloom, Mr. Elliot had been forced into the introduction.

He was at that time a very young man, just engaged in the study of the law; and Elizabeth found him extremely agreeable, and every plan in his favour was confirmed. He was invited to Kellynch Hall; he was talked of and expected all the rest of the year; but he never came. The following spring he was seen again in town, found equally agreeable, again encouraged, invited and expected, and again he did not come; and the next tidings were that he was married. Instead of pushing his fortune in the line marked out for the heir of the house of Elliot, he had purchased independence by uniting himself to a rich woman of inferior birth.

Sir Walter had resented it. As the head of the house, he felt that he ought to have been consulted, especially after taking the young man so publicly by the hand: "For they must have been seen together," he observed, "once at Tattersal's, and twice in the lobby of the House of Commons." His disapprobation was expressed, but apparently very little regarded. Mr. Elliot had attempted no apology, and shewn himself as unsolicitous of being longer noticed by the family, as Sir Walter considered him unworthy of it: all acquaintance between them had ceased.

This very awkward history of Mr. Elliot, was still, after an interval of several years, felt with anger by Elizabeth, who had liked the man for himself, and still more for being her father's heir, and whose strong family pride could see only in him, a proper match for Sir Walter Elliot's eldest daughter. There was not a baronet from A to Z, whom her feelings could have so willingly acknowledged as an equal. Yet so miserably had he conducted himself, that though she was at this present time (the summer of 1814), wearing black ribbons for his wife, she could not admit him to be worth thinking of again. The disgrace of his first marriage might, perhaps, as there was no reason to suppose it perpetuated by offspring, have been got over, had he not done worse; but he had, as by the accustomary intervention of kind friends they had been informed, spoken most disrespectfully of them all, most slightingly and contemptuously of the very blood he belonged to, and the honours which were hereafter to be his own. This could not be pardoned.

Such were Elizabeth Elliot's sentiments and sensations; such the cares to alloy, the agitations to vary, the sameness and the elegance, the prosperity and the nothingness, of her scene of life-such the feelings to give interest to a long, uneventful residence in one country circle, to fill the vacancies which there were no habits of utility abroad, no talents or accomplishments for home, to occupy.

But now, another occupation and solicitude of mind was beginning to be added to these. Her father was growing distressed for money. She knew, that when he now took up the Baronetage, it was to drive the heavy bills of his tradespeople, and the unwelcome hints of Mr. Shepherd, his agent, from his thoughts. The Kellynch property was good, but not equal to Sir Walter's apprehension of the state required in its possessor. While Lady Elliot lived, there had been method, moderation, and economy, which had just kept him within his income; but with her had died all such right-mindedness, and from that period he had been constantly exceeding it. It had not been possible for him to spend less; he had done nothing but what Sir Walter Elliot was imperiously called on to do; but blameless as he was, he was not only growing dreadfully in debt, but was hearing of it so often, that it became vain to attempt concealing it longer, even partially, from his daughter. He had given her some hints of it the last spring in town; he had gone so far even as to say, "Can we retrench? does it occur to you that there is any one article in which we can retrench?"-and Elizabeth, to do her justice, had, in the first ardour of female alarm, set seriously to think what could be done, and had finally proposed these two branches of economy: to cut off some unnecessary charities, and to refrain from new-furnishing the drawing-room; to which expedients she afterwards added the happy thought of their taking no present down to Anne, as had been the usual yearly custom. But these measures, however good in themselves, were insufficient for the real extent of the evil, the whole of which Sir Walter found himself obliged to confess to her soon afterwards. Elizabeth had nothing to propose of deeper efficacy. She felt herself ill-used and unfortunate, as did her father; and they were neither of them able to devise any means of lessening their expenses without compromising their dignity, or relinquishing their comforts in a way not to be borne.

There was only a small part of his estate that Sir Walter could dispose of; but had every acre been alienable, it would have made no difference. He had condescended to mortgage as far as he had the power, but he would never condescend to sell. No; he would never disgrace his name so far. The Kellynch estate should be transmitted whole and entire, as he had received it.

Their two confidential friends, Mr. Shepherd, who lived in the neighbouring market town, and Lady Russell, were called on to advise them; and both father and daughter seemed to expect that something should be struck out by one or the other to remove their embarrassments and reduce their expenditure, without involving the loss of any indulgence of taste or pride.


From the Paperback edition.

Recenzii

"In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want" Independent "Everyone has their Austen, and this is mine. Sparer, more savage - and also more poignant than Pride and Prejudice, this is a novel that tells us wisely and wittily about the nature of romantic entanglements and the follies of being human. It isn't riven with the deep, muscular ironies of, say, Emma, but there is something about the dry lightness of Persuasion that is deceptive. It stays with you long after you've read it" -- Nigella Lawson "I worship all of Austen's novels, but if I have to choose one over the others, I plump for the autumnal pleasures of Persuasion. This is the last work Austen completed before her death in 1817, and it is rather more tender and melancholy in tone than the novels that preceded it. I read it once or twice a year, whenever I feel in need of a good cry" -- Zoe Heller "A subtle and elegiac novel - more heartfelt than some of her earlier romances and with a truly appealing heroine" -- Joanna Trollope "Female self-worth could have been invented by Jane Austen. No wonder we still value her" -- Germaine Greer Guardian

Caracteristici

Beautiful package with spot-UV and super-matt lamination

Textul de pe ultima copertă

For her last novel’s plot, Austen returns to the tensions of inheritance; but the once satisfactory solution—security on a landed estate—no longer applies. Here, Anne, the unappreciated middle daughter of the Elliots, has new choices to make, between the customs and traditions in which she was brought up and the excitement of the unknown.

Cuprins

General Editor's preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; Note on the text; Persuasion; Appendices; Emendations; Abbreviations; Explanatory notes.