{"product_id":"persuasion-vintage-classics-austen-series-9780099589327","title":"Persuasion Vintage Classics Austen Series","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Austen (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writing \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called \u003ci\u003eFirst Impressions\u003c\/i\u003e and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, \u003ci\u003eSense and Sensibility\u003c\/i\u003e (1811), \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e (1813), \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e (1814) and \u003ci\u003eEmma\u003c\/i\u003e (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. \u003ci\u003eNorthanger Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/i\u003e were both published posthumously in 1818.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLynne Truss (Introducer) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEats, Shoots and Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTalk to the Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eLynne Truss \u003c\/b\u003eis a journalist, arts and book reviewer, sports columnist and a regular broadcaster for BBC's Radio 4. She's had two plays performed at the Edinb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryone has their Austen, and this is mine. Sparer, more savage - and also more poignant than \u003ci\u003ePride and Prejudice\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/i\u003e that is deceptive. It stays with you long after you've read it -- Nigella Lawson\u003cbr\u003eI worship all of Austen's novels, but if I have to choose one over the others, I plump for the autumnal pleasures of \u003ci\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/i\u003e. 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\u003cbr\u003eA subtle and elegiac novel - more heartfelt than some of her earlier romances and with a truly appealing heroine -- Joanna Trollope\u003cbr\u003eFemale self-worth could have been invented by Jane Austen\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e No wonder we still value her -- Germaine Greer * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eIt is a sort of a private novel. In the heroine, Anne Elliot, we have glimpses of Austen and what happened to her; the lost romance and the lost youth -- Julian Fellowes * Sunday Express *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732318138711,"sku":"9780099589327","price":9.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099589327.jpg?v=1719996391","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/persuasion-vintage-classics-austen-series-9780099589327","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}