Jane Austen 
Persuasion 

Vividly depicting the society holiday towns of Lyme Regis and Bath and infused with its author’s trademark wit, Austen’s last completed novel, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, is an entertaining and enduring account of the dilemmas facing young women in the early nineteenth century. This edition contains a wealth of material about the author’s life and works, notes and a bibliographic section.