During the Second World War the UK government created the Central Office of Information to act as the country's marketing & communications agency In these desperate times the Office produced steady streams of propaganda for the home front for the colonies & for dissemination through occupied countries In addition to patriotic material encouraging Britons to maintain a stiff upper lip thousands of postcards leaflets posters booklets & other promotional materials were dropped from aircraft over occupied countries in World War IIIn 2000 the master set of copies was deposited with the British Library making an enormous collection of great social & historical significance available to the public for the first time In this book the leading historian of propaganda presents the best examples from the wartime information machine & reveals the history behind this key government body ...

' She had been forced into prudence in her youth she learned romance as she grew older
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Jane Austen's final novel is her most mature & wickedly satirical It follows the story of Anne Elliott who as a teenager was engaged to a seemingly ideal man Frederick Wentworth But after being persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that he is too poor to be a suitable match Anne ends their engagement When they are reacquainted eight years later their circumstances are transformed Frederick is returning triumphantly from the Napoleonic War while Anne's fortunes are floundering Will their past regrets prevent them from finding future happiness? Gorgeously illustrated by Hugh Thomson this Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Persuasion also

Includes:: an afterword by author & critic Henry Hitchings Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure

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Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series this edition of Persuasion is thoroughly edited & extensively annotated &

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Harper Collins is proud to present its range of best-loved essential classics She had been forced into prudence in her youth she learned romance as she grew older the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning' Written at the end of the Napoleonic Wars Persuasion is a tale of love heartache & the determination of one woman as she strives to reignite a lost love Anne Elliot is persuaded by her friends & family to reject a marriage proposal from Captain Wentworth because he lacks in fortune & rank More than seven years later when he returns home from the Navy Anne realises she still has strong feelings for him but Wentworth only appears to have eyes for a friend of Anne's Moving tender but intrinsically Austen' in style with it's satirical portrayal of the vanity of society in eighteenth-century England Persuasion celebrates enduring love & hope ...

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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The Penguin English Library Edition of Persuasion by Jane Austen' Her attachment & regrets had for a long time clouded every enjoyment of youth; & an early loss of bloom & spirits had been their lasting effect' Persuasion Jane Austen's last novel is a moving masterly & elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities It tells the story of Anne Elliot who persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not successful enough has never forgotten him When he returns he brings with him a tantalizing second chance of happiness The Penguin English Library
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