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 |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
dc.title | Persuasion |
dc.type | Text |
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branding | Oxford Text Archive |
branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 494350 |
files.count | 1 |
otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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<Text id=AusPers> <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> <body> <div0 type=part n=1> <div1 type=chapter n=1> <loc><locdoc>AusPers3</locdoc><milestone n=3> 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 . . .