Persuasion
| dc.contributor | Burrows, John |
| dc.contributor.author | Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 |
| dc.contributor.editor | Chapman, R. W. (Robert William), 1881-1960 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | Oxford |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:55:05Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:55:05Z |
| dc.date.created | 1817 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-06-10 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1523 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1523 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1523 |
| dc.description.abstract | Text based on collation of the early editions by R. W. Chapman, with notes, indexes, and illustrations from contemporary sources Added title page: Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, with a biographical notice of the author, in four volumes, London, John Murray, 1818 |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 482 KB) |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- Great Britain -- 19th century |
| dc.title | Persuasion |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.size | 500438 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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<Author>Austen, Jane</Author>
<Title>Persuasion</Title>
<Edition>The Novels of Jane Austen. R. W. Chapman, ed. 2nd. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926</Edition>
<Date>1815-1817</Date>
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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire,
was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up
any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation
for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one;
there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect,
by contemplating the limited remnant of the earliest
patents; there any unwelcome sensations, arising from
domestic affairs, changed naturally into pity and contempt,
as he turned over the almost endless creations of the last
century -- and there, if every other leaf were powerless,
he could read his own history with an interest which
never failed -- this was the page at which the favourite
volume . . .
