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Book Review of Persuasion

Persuasion
Persuasion
Author: Jane Austen
Book Type: Paperback
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In this, Jane Austen's last novel, appears her most memorable herioine -- Anne Elliot, a young woman of perfect breeding, profound depth of emotion, and unswerving integrity. These virtues, however, exist in a world, the world of country gentry in Regency England, in which shallowness and hypocrisy thrive and ever threaten to win domination.

"Persuasion" represents the crowning achievement of Jane Austen's career, the final unfolding ofg her matchless art. Marvin Mudrick