PERSUASION - Oxford World s Classics

"Anne Elliot's heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Auten's last completed novel.
It features a heorine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, and its tone is more intimate and sober as Jane Austen unfolds a simple lovely-story with depth and subtlely.
She described her heroine in a letter as 'almost too good for me'.
Anne Elliot's goodness is not of the cloying kind, but an unsentimental quality that, combined with stoicism and integrity, enables her to find happiness in love after seven years when it seemed she had forever put an end to such a prospect.
The settings of Lyme Rigis and Bath are evoked no less vividly than the characters who frequent them, and Jane Austen's achievement is exemplified by Tennyson's famous remark when visiting Lyme in 1867: 'Now take me to the Cobb, and show me the steps from which Louisa Musgrove fell'."