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Persuasion

 
dc.contributor Burrows, John
dc.contributor.author Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
dc.contributor.editor Chapman, R. W. (Robert William), 1881-1960
dc.coverage.placeName Oxford
dc.date.accessioned 2018-07-27
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-19T14:46:48Z
dc.date.available 2022-08-19T14:46:48Z
dc.date.created 1817
dc.date.issued 1993-06-10
dc.identifier ota:1523
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1523
dc.description.abstract Text based on collation of the early editions by R. W. Chapman, with notes, indexes, and illustrations from contemporary sources Added title page: Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, with a biographical notice of the author, in four volumes, London, John Murray, 1818
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dc.language English
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher University of Oxford
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dc.subject.lcsh Novels -- Great Britain -- 19th century
dc.title Persuasion
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<Author>Austen, Jane</Author> 
<Title>Persuasion</Title> 
<Edition>The Novels of Jane Austen.  R. W. Chapman, ed. 2nd. ed.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926</Edition> 
<Date>1815-1817</Date> 
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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; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from 
domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt, 
as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last 
century -- and there, if every other leaf were powerless, 
he could read his own history with an interest which 
never failed -- this was the page at which the favourite 
volume . . .
										

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