|aPersuasion /|cJane Austen; retold by Clare West.
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|aSimplified ed.
260
|aOxford :|bOxford University Press,|cc2008.
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|a104 p. :|bill. ;|c20 cm.
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|aOxford bookworms library. Classics. Stage 4
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|aStage 4: 1400 headwords.
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|aWord count: 19,370.
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|aAt nineteen Anne Elliot refuses an offer of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, persuaded to do so by Lady Russell, a friend of her dead mother. Wentworth is a sailor, with no money and an uncertain future, says Lady Russell - just a nobody, certainly not worthy of a baronet's daughter. Eight years later Wentworth returns, a rich and successful captain, looking for a wife. Anne is still unmarried, but Captain Wentworth clearly prefers the company of the two Musgrove girls.
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|aCourtship|zEngland|vFiction.
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|aYoung women|zEngland|vFiction.
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|aReaders.
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|aEngland|xSocial life and customs|y19th century|vFiction.
This unabridged Austen classic about a woman who casts off a lover because of his lack of wealth and social status features a dynamic cover and a new Introduction and Afterword.