Persuasion: An Annotated Edition

Contributor(s): Austen, Jane (Author), Morrison, Robert (Editor)

ISBN: 9780674049741

Publisher: Belknap Press

Hardcover

$35.00

Pub Date: November 7, 2011

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2011013150

Lexile Code: 0840

Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.22" H x 9.77" L x 9.33" W ( 2.59 lbs) 360 pages

BISAC Categories:

Fiction | Classics

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000050678 ( Persuasion: An Annotated Edition)

Reading level: 12.00

Interest level: UG

Point value: 19.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: This richly illustrated annotated edition brings unmatched vitality to Austen's most passionate and introspective love story. Commentary alongside the text explains difficult allusions, while the Introduction explicates the novel's central conflicts as well as its relationship to Austen's other works and to those of her contemporaries.

Brief description: Robert Morrison is Queen's National Scholar at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

Review Quotes: Robert Morrison's new annotated edition of Persuasion is terrific: thorough, scrupulous, and thoughtful. It is a worthy addition to the wonderful Harvard series of annotated volumes, likely to be long read and much enjoyed by Austen enthusiasts.--Patricia Meyer Spacks