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Sir Walter
Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his
own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he
found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed
one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect,
by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest patents.
內容簡介:
Jane Austen''s debut in our award-winning graphic-cover
series.
Written during Jane Austen''s race against failing health,
Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who-at
twenty-seven-is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.
Eight years ago, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to
break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval
captain with neither fortune nor rank. When Anne and Frederick meet
again, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of her
rejection. A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Austen''s
last completed novel is also a movingly told love story tinged with
the heartache of missed opportunities.
關於作者:
Jane Austen 1775-1817 was the seventh child
of a parish rector. She died unmarried, leaving behind an immortal
body of work.
Colm Tóibín is the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted
novels The Blackwater Lightship and The Master and
the Costa Book Award Winner Brooklyn. He lives in
Dublin.
Audrey Niffenegger is a visual artist and author of the
bestselling novels The Time Traveler''s Wife and Her
Fearful Symmetry and the graphic novels The Adventuress,
Three Incestuous Sisters, and The Night Bookmobile.