Published posthumously, Jane Austen's last finished novel tells the story of an unexpected revival of romance between Anne Elliot and her first love. Its satirical look at social decorum contrasts with the growing ardency of Anne's feelings.
The title, Jane Austen's’s Persuasion, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Jane Austen's’s Persuasion through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Jane Austen's, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
