Austen, Jane
Summary: Persuasion is an umbrella term of influence. Persuasion can attempt to influence a person's beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviors. In business, persuasion is a process aimed at changing a person's (or a group's) attitude or behavior toward some event, idea, object, or other person(s), by using written or spoken words to convey information, feelings, or reasoning, or a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood set their sights on men to perfectly match their disparate personalities, with unexpected results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Persuasion: "Anne Elliot is a young woman of perfect breeding and unwavering integrity. Austen wrote of her, 'She is almost too good for me.' Persuasion is the story of Anne and Captain Wentworth and their long awaited union. The world of country gentry in Regency England serves as a setting while portraying the many aspects of proper society - its failings and humor"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2008
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Summary: Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 1995
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Summary: Miss Fanny Price, the poor relation of a wealthy family, possesses only natural goodness to aid her against a witty and lovely rival as they compete for the man they both love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1995
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Summary: Social and romantic misunderstandings combine against the Bennet sisters in their pursuit of suitable romantic attachments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 1996
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Summary: Anne Elliot passes up an opportunity for happiness when she declines a match in marriage in hopes of bettering her position. Beauty fades as seven years pass, when her former love returns a wealthier man. Anne finds herself slighted and all traces of their former intimacy gone. Mishaps and mischief mount as the pair tempt fate in this comic story of love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: NAXOS AudioBooks 2007
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Summary: In 19th century Bath, a girl bursting with freshness and a passion for macabre Gothic novels experiences intrigue, adventure, and romance, espeically when the romantic Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1982
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Summary: Persuasion is the story of the love between upper-class Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth, who must earn his fortune. Set against the rarefied sensibilities of upper class England of Austen's day, the love story is both a satire upon class values and differences, and an engaging novel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2001
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Summary: In Persuasion, her last novel, Jane Austen reveals her most mature dissection of people, place and social setting. Like the earlier works Persuasion is a tale of love and marriage, told with the irony, insight and just evaluation of human conduct which sets her novels apart. But the heroine - like the author - is more mature; the tone of the writing more sombre. Anne Elliot and Captain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1984
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 1993
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Summary: Presents Jane Austen's classic novel in which young, well-to-do, and bored Emma Woodhouse learns a thing or two about true class--and love--after an eventful turn as a matchmaker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2006
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Summary: The happiest of love stories, the most fiendishly difficult of detective stories and a matchless repository of English wit Thus comments Ronald Blythe, adding that Emma was the climax of Jane Austen's genius and the Parthenon of fiction. Jane Austen would have, no doubt, demurred in her cool, ironic way at this verdict; she herself wrote that she was planning to take a heroine in Emma 'which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1995
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Summary: The story of Mrs. Bennett's finding husbands for her five daughters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: InAudio 2003
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Summary: Presents a romantic fictional account of Emma Woodhouse, a clever and rich young woman with a comfortable home and a happy disposition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987