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Persuasion by Jane Austen

About 472 pages (141,545 words) in 11 products

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Persuasion Quotes
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Persuasion (1818) was the last novel completed by Jane Austen . It was not published until after her death. Sourced Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably...


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Persuasion eBook
74,431 words, approx. 248 pages
The complete online text of Persuasion by Jane Austen.


Author Biography

Name: Jane Austen
Birth Date: 1775
Death Date: 1817
Place of Birth: Steventon, England
Place of Death: Winchester, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: author, novelist, writer

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Biography of Jane Austen
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The English writer Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the most important novelists of the 19th century. In her intense concentration on the thoughts and feelings of a limited number of characters, Jane Austen creates as profound an understanding and as p...
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Biography of Jane Austen
16199 words, approx. 54 pages
Jane Austen is one of the few novelists in world literature who is regarded as a "classic" and yet is widely read. As the contemporary novelist Fay Weldon puts it, for generations of students and the educated reading public in many countries, Austen's no...
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Biography of Jane Austen
12465 words, approx. 41.6 pages
Jane Austen stands not only as a novelist central to the Romantic period but as one of the supreme prose fiction writers of all literature written in English. Her many admirers include Henry James and Virginia Woolf, both of whom she influenced. Yet amid...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Persuasion Information
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Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August, 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817, but Persuasion was not published until 1818. Persuasion is connected with Northanger Abbey not...


News and Journals
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The Washington Post
Novel Persuasion
03/14/2006: 424 words, approx. 1 pages
David Doman, a Maryland-based physician who teaches medicine at George Washington University, has chosen an unusual form to state his case for universal health care coverage: an essentially self- published novel. In "Heartbeat," Doman weaves the personal stories of uninsured Americans into a...
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National Review
Persuasion.
10/23/1995: 686 words, approx. 2 pages
Mr. Simon is NR's film critic. I DON'T know what I would think today of the movie version of Pride and Prejudice, which I loved back then; but with that cast, and Aldous Huxley for co-scenarist, it should please me still. I do,...
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The New York Observer
Pretty Persuasion and The People That All Look Alike
8/5/2005: 680 words, approx. 2 pages
"Can you tell us what the fuck that movie was about?" asked a leggy blonde. She was at the afterparty for the premiere of Pretty Persuasion, a dark teen dramedy in the fine tradition of Heathers. "We walked in halfway through." Hmm, let's see. There's...
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Investor's Business Daily
Use Three Steps To Write Persuasive Business Memos
3/30/2007: 454 words, approx. 2 pages
If you write a business memo solely to inform readers, your job is easy. Just present the facts in a concise, organized manner. But if you want to persuade, the plot thickens. You must motivate people to act on what they read. Win them over...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Essay Grade: 95%
Comparison of "Persuasion" and "The Magic Toyshop"
2,471 words, approx. 8 pages
Essay explains how sympathetically Jane Austen's "Persuasion" and Angela Carter's "The Magic Toyshop" depict male behavior.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Utilizing Morality As a Catalyst for Change - A Review of Jane Austen's Persuasion
1,376 words, approx. 5 pages
Explains how Anne, the female heroine of Jane Austen's Persuasion, is rewarded for her strong moral fortitude. Then relates that theme to other female characters in Austen novels.
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Essay Grade: 83%
Individual and Society- Persuasion and Wives and Daughters.
1,243 words, approx. 4 pages
The effect of social paradigms on individuals in their society is represented in the 1866 novel `Wives and Daughters' by Gaskell and the `95 version of Austens 1818 `Persuasion'. In these texts, the heroines must balance their emerging sense of self with their observiance of gender and class conventions. Wives and daughters is about dutiful, sweet Molly Gibson and her more worldly step-sister Cynthia.


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