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  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241804735
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99

Persuasion

  • Jane Austen




Six new delightful and collectible hardback editions from Penguin Classics, publishing to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary

'Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'

Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. It tells the story of Anne Elliot, who, persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not successful enough, has never forgotten him. When he returns, he brings with him a tantalizing second chance of happiness...

  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241804735
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $29.99

Other books in the series

Emma
Persuasion
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
On Sparta
Love
Annals
Military Dispatches

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