Persuasion (EasyRead Edition)

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>Persuasion (1818) is Jane Austenss last novel written. The work deals with the major social issues of that time, predominantly class-prejudice as well as mercenary and hypocritical attitudes. The novel opens eight years after Anne Elliott broke all ties with Captain Wentworth, a naval officer, after being persuaded that it was in everybody's best interest.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Jane Austen, England's first major female novelist, wrote and set her novels during the Regency period, when George III was too mad, and his son the Prince, who admired Austen's novels, too young to rule the country. Her six novels are best loved for their irony and perfection of form.Jane Austen perfected the English novel of the previous century in much the same way that Henry James perfected the Victorian novel. She never married and died in 1817 at age 41.