PERSUASION ( Wordsworth Classics )

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This Wordsworth Edition includes an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature, University of Essex. What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think something else? Anne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her restricted circumstances as her long-time love Captain Wentworth did in the wars. Even though she is nearly thirty, well past the sell-by bloom of youth, Austen makes her win out for herself and for others like herself, in a regenerated society.

女主人公Anne在19歲的時候愛上了一文不名的男主人公Wentworth，但是他們的婚姻遭到Anne的父親（一位揮霍無度的大地主）和Lady Russell（像母親一樣照顧Anne長大）的反對。 Anne聽從了他們的勸導，放棄了這段感情。但是在其後的十年內，她一直無法忘記Wentworth，失敗的愛情也使她過早的失去了青春美貌。十年之後，Wentworth先生功成名就，而Anne的父親卻因為經濟拮据而不得不將自己的莊園租給了Wentworth先生的朋友。兩人再次見面時，Anne成了嫁不出去的老姑娘，Wentworth先生卻有很多年輕美貌的小姐圍繞著、盼望著能夠得到他的青睞。不過這個故事的結局我想大家都可以猜到，我們的Anne小姐最後還是和Wentworth先生再次墜入情網，又一個奧斯丁式的happy ending。