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Persuasion
Persuasion
(Part of Enriched Classics)  
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The Enriched Classics series offers readers such features as:
• A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information
• A chronology of the author’s life and work
• A timeline of significant events that provides the book’s historical context
• An outline of key themes and plot points to help guide the reader’s own interpretations
• Detailed explanatory notes
• Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work
• Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction
• A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experience
• Reader-friendly font size
York County Coast Star, September 3, 2009
...discuss "Sense and Sensibility" on Sept. 15; "Mansfield Park" on Oct. 20; "Northanger Abbey" on Nov. 10; and "Persuasion" on Dec. 15, at which time they will also have a Jane Austen birthday celebration. The group will discuss the books, not ...
Guardian Unlimited, August 28, 2009
...I loved teaching it. In the good years it was Lord of the Flies, in the bad years Persuasion. (If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's ...
Times Online, August 8, 2009
...Branwell Brontë, and the inspiration for the novels Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey. www.bronte.info Jane Austen?s House Museum The house at Chawton is where she wrote Emma, Persuasion and Mansfield Park. ...
Sunday Gazette-Mail, July 26, 2009
...Q: Did William Wilberforce really sponsor the Rev. Patrick Bront to Cambridge? Q: There's a swipe at Jane Austen in your book. Don't you like my favorite author? A: Actually I love Jane Austen. Especially 'Pride and Prejudice,' 'Sense and ...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, June 25, 2009
...Home: Book Reviews : Classic Fiction : Persuasion After setting Captain Wentworth free, Anne Elliot is about to discover whether their love is meant to be. ?Persuasion is written in true Jane Austen style, with the heartwarming drama ...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, June 22, 2009
... by Jane Austen After setting Captain Wentworth free, Anne Elliot is about to discover whether their love is meant to be. ' is written in true Jane Austen style, with the heartwarming drama ...
Hartford Courant, May 23, 2009
...lighthouse accommodations are near writers' stomping grounds. If your mom is a fan of Ian McEwan, John Fowles, Jane Austen or Agatha Christie (strange bedfellows, I know), the county of Dorset on England's south coast is a good place to ...
Winston-Salem Journal, May 17, 2009
...lighthouse accommodations are near writers' stomping grounds. If your mom is a fan of Ian McEwan, John Fowles, Jane Austen or Agatha Christie (strange bedfellows, I know), the county of Dorset on England's south coast is a good place to ...
South Coast Today, May 17, 2009
...lighthouse accommodations are near writers' stomping grounds. If your mom is a fan of Ian McEwan, John Fowles, Jane Austen or Agatha Christie (strange bedfellows, I know), the county of Dorset on England's south coast is a good place to ...
Inside Bay Area, May 14, 2009
...lighthouse accommodations are near writers' stomping grounds. If your mom is a fan of Ian McEwan, John Fowles, Jane Austen or Agatha Christie (strange bedfellows, I know), the county of Dorset on England's south coast is a good place to ...
Philippine Star, April 30, 2009
...Bissell and Arthur Phillips. The rest of the stories crackle, then fizzle. After this I had a short Jane Austen period with Emma and Persuasion (also written about previously), my absolute favorite of her novels. Emma was successfully ...
Herald Sun, March 21, 2009
...BATH'S most famous resident bolted 203 years ago, but the Somerset city Jane Austen reputedly hated has had a love affair with the author since. Forced to leave her quiet village of Steventon in Hampshire when her family moved to Bath in ...
Philippine Star, March 6, 2009
...schools and municipal libraries.) Of the books read during the moratorium, the most astounding literary experiences have been Persuasion by Jane Austen and the graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The first is an ...