TY - BOOK AU - Austen,Jane TI - Persuasion SN - 978-0-19-479181-6 U1 - 823 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - 823 - Novelística Inglesa N1 - Includes glossary. Includes activities before, while and after reading N2 - At 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… ER -