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  2. Persuasion (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen.It was published on 20 December 1817, along with Northanger Abbey, six months after her death, although the title page is dated 1818.

  3. Category:Novels by Jane Austen - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Persuasion (novel) (3 C, 1 P) Pride and ... Pages in category "Novels by Jane Austen" The following 12 pages are in this ...

  4. Persuasion (1995 film) - Wikipedia

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    Persuasion is a BBC Screen Two 1995 period drama film directed by Roger Michell and based on Jane Austen's 1817 novel of the same name. In her theatrical film debut, Amanda Root stars as protagonist Anne Elliot, while Ciarán Hinds plays her romantic interest, Captain Frederick Wentworth. The film is set in early 19th-century England, eight ...

  5. Anne Elliot - Wikipedia

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    Anne Elliot is the protagonist of Jane Austen's sixth and last completed novel, Persuasion (1817).. Anne Elliot was persuaded, when she was 19 years old, to break off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth, a promising young lieutenant in the Royal Navy but a commoner without fortune, and she has never married.

  6. The top 16 Jane Austen adaptations, from Pride and ... - AOL

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    Austen wrote six full-length novels before she died: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1816) – while Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were ...

  7. Penguin Red Classics - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Jane Austen: Persuasion: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility:

  8. Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion) - Wikipedia

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    Captain Frederick Wentworth is a fictional character in the 1817 novel Persuasion written by Jane Austen. He is the prototype of the new gentleman in the 19th century: a self-made man who makes his fortune by hard work rather than inheritance.

  9. ‘Persuasion’ Review: Dakota Johnson Makes an Odd Fit for a ...

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    Jane Austen completed the manuscript for “Persuasion” in 1816, the year before her death. But even then, more than 200 years ago, she anticipated the conversation Hollywood is having today ...