WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY LYNNE TRUSSThe Vintage Classics Austen series is designed by the writer & illustrator Leanne Shapton & introduced by some of our finest contemporary writers & Austen fans Alexander Mc Call Smith Lynne Truss Amanda Vickery Francesca Segal PD James & Andrew Motion ' It is a sort of private novel In the heroine Anne Elliot we have glimpses of Austen & what happened to her; the lost romance & the lost youth' Julian Fellowes Eight years ago Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family & made the decision not to marry the man she loved Captain Wentworth Now circumstances have conspired to bring him back into her social circle & Anne finds her old feelings for him reignited However when they meet again Wentworth behaves as if they are strangers & seems more interested in her friend Louisa In this her final novel Jane Austen tells the story of a love that endures the tests of time & society with humour insight & tenderness ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play BBC adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen Anne Elliot (Amanda Root) has spent years regretting her rejection of Captain Wentworth (Ciarán Hinds)&s marriage proposal When he returns from sea they meet but instead of finding romance are kept apart through a series of misunderstandings Anne is being pursued by her cousin Mr Elliot (Samuel West) while Wentworth is now regarded as a very eligible bachelor Will their new circumstances continue to prevent them from reuniting? ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design At twenty-seven Anne Elliot is no longer young & has few romantic prospects Eight years earlier she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis & Bath Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity & pretension but above all it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities ...

Introduction & Notes by Elaine Jordan Reader in Literature University of Essex What does persuasion mean
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Her last completed novel marrying witty social realism to a ' Cinderella' love story Jane Austen's Persuasion is edited with an introduction by Gillian Beer in Penguin Classics Anne Elliot twenty-seven & still single seems destined for spinsterhood In her youth she broke off an engagement to penniless Captain Wentworth at the insistence of her friend Lady Russell acquiescing to the demands of her class at the expense of her happiness But when Wentworth returns from the Napoleonic wars rich & famous Anne finds her affection rekindled
- even though Wentworth seems more interested in Anne's friend Louisa Musgrove Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis & Bath Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity & pretension but above all it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities In her introduction Gillian Beer discusses Austen's portrayal of the double-edged nature of persuasion & the clash between old & new worlds This edition also

Includes:: a new chronology & full textual notes Jane Austen (1775-1817) was extremely modest about her own genius but has become one of English literature's most famous women writers Austen began writing at a young age embarking on what is possibly her best-known work Pride & Prejudice at the age of 22 She was the author of Sense & Sensibility Pride & Prejudice Emma Persuasion Mansfield Park & Northanger Abbey If you liked Persuasion you may enjoy George Eliot's Middlemarch also available in Penguin Classics The most perfect artist among women the writer whose books are immortal (Virginia Woolf)


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play TV adaptation of Jane Austen&s novel Anne Elliott (Sally Hawkins) has spent years regretting her rejection of Captain Wentworth (Rupert Penry-Jones)&s proposal of marriage her family having been against the match on grounds of class When he returns from sea they meet but instead of finding romance are kept apart through a series of misunderstandings Anne is being pursued by her cousin Mr Elliott (Tobias Menzies) while Captain Wentworth is regarded as a very eligible bachelor & has a stream of young women with marriage in mind beating a path to his door ...

BBC adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen Anne Elliot (Amanda Root) has spent years regretting her rejection of Captain Wentworth (Ciaran Hinds)&s marriage proposal When he returns from sea they meet but instead of finding romance are kept apart through a series of misunderstandings Anne is being pursued by her cousin Mr Elliot (Samuel West) while Wentworth is now regarded as a very eligible bachelor Will their new circumstances continue to prevent them from reuniting? ...

Persuasion Ethics Today explores persuasive communication in the fields of advertising promotions public relations & integrated marketing communication & is designed for course use in advertising curricula Ethical questions have become increasingly important in today's media landscape & issues of regulation privacy & convenience are the subjects of heated debate among consumers industry professional policy makers & interest groups With the explosion of social media mobile devices tracking technologies & behavioral targeting the ethical issues about persuasion continue to increase in importance This book's goal is to offer a broad introduction to the ethical standards challenges understanding & decision-making strategies involved in the practice of persuasion Persuasion Ethics Today links real world persuasive communication activities to fundamental philosophies of ethics It also offers tools for students & practitioners to engage with ethical dilemmas in a systematic way & jumpstart debates about the right ethical choices in an increasingly complex media & social environment ...

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