VERY GOOD
CONDITION
This sale is for a
quality vintage hardback FOLIO SOCIETY EDITION entitled “Persuasion,” by Jane Austen,
with an Introduction by Richard Church and numerous wood-engravings by Joan
Hassall, including a frontispiece.
It was published
by The Folio Society, of London, in 1988.
In Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last work, her
inventive satire and ridicule take a milder form, the interest lying in the exquisitely
tender love story. The heroine, Anne
Elliott, is twenty-seven, no longer in the first flush of beauty, and unmarried,
her previous attachment to the naval officer Frederick Wentworth having been
broken off through a misunderstanding. Indeed,
it is a literary tradition that a love affair in Jane Austen’s own life is reflected
in Anne Elliott’s. But while Jane herself
was never rewarded by a lasting relationship, her heroine discovers that Captain
Wentworth’s affection has survived her initial rejection.
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
was an English novelist and one of the most widely read and most beloved
writers in English literature. From 1811
until 1815, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice
(1813),
The book measures
9 inches x 6 inches and has 235 pages (including illustrations).
The book is in good,
clean and neat condition for its age.
The binding is good with no loose or missing pages. There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO
other ink or pencil markings in the book.
There is no slipcase.
A wonderful,
illustrated quality vintage FOLIO SOCIETY EDITION.
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