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Overview
Jane Austen
Persuasion
A Longman Cultural Edition
Editor: William Galperin Series Editor: Susan J. Wolfson
Affordably priced, Longman Cultural Editions present classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts–cultural, critical, and literary. Each Longman Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of a key literary work, supplemented by helpful annotations and followed by contextual materials that reveal the conversations and controversies of its historical moment.
Beowulf
Anonymous/Sarah Anderson
© 2004 • 272 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-10720-9
Emma
Jane Austen/Frances Ferguson
© 2006 • 448 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-22504-X
Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen/Marilyn Gaull
© 2005 • 272 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-20208-2
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen/Claudia Johnson/Susan Wolfson
© 2003 • 464 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-10507-9
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë/Alison Booth
© 2008 • 450 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-21298-3
Heart of Darkness, The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Works on Empire
Joseph Conrad/Rudyard Kipling/David Damrosch
© 2007 • 300 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-36467-8
Hard Times
Charles Dickens/Jeff Nunokawa/Gage McWeeny
© 2004 • 350 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-10721-7
Coming Soon! The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews
Henry Fielding/Andrew Potkay
© 2008 • 368 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-20937-0
John Keats
John Keats/Susan Wolfson
© 2007 • 650 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-23616-5
Coming Soon! The Monk
Matthew Lewis/Michael Eberle-Sinatra
© 2008 • 350 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-27591-8
Coming Soon! Antony and Cleopatra
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© 2008 • 300 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-19874-3
Hamlet, Second Edition
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© 2005 • 264 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-31729-7
Henry IV, Parts I & II
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© 2007 • 288 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-18274-X
King Lear
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© 2005 • 258 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-10722-5
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare/Lawrence Danson
© 2005 • 288 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-16419-9
Othello and The Tragedy of Mariam
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© 2003 • 306 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-09699-1
Frankenstein, Second Edition
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© 2007 • 400 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-39953-6
The Castle of Otranto and The Man of Feeling
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© 2007 • 300 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-39892-0
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© 2007 • 460 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-42713-0
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© 2007 • 500 pages • Paper • ISBN 0-321-18273-1
Synopsis
From Longman's Cultural Editions series, Persuasion, edited by William Galperin, presents Jane Austen's classic work along with a critical introduction and contextual materials on and from the period.
Handsomely produced and affordably priced, the Longman Cultural Editions series presents classic works in provocative and illuminating contexts–cultural, critical, and literary. Each Cultural Edition consists of the complete text of an important literary work, reliably edited, headed by an inviting introduction, and supplemented by helpful annotations; a table of dates to track its composition, publication, and public reception in relation to biographical, cultural and historical events; and a guide for further inquiry and study.
See all the Longman Cultural Editions at www.ablongman.com/longmanculturaleditions.
Publishers Weekly
Stevenson has read all of Austen's novels for audiobook, in abridged or unabridged versions, and her experience shows in this delightful production. Though dominated by the intelligent, sweet voice of Anne Elliot-the least favored but most worthy of three daughters in a family with an old name but declining fortunes-Stevenson provides other characters with memorable voices as well. She reads Anne's haughty father's lines with a mixture of stuffiness and bluster, and Anne's sisters are portrayed with a hilariously flighty, breathy register that makes Austen's contempt for them palpable. Anne's voice is mostly measured and reasonable-an expression of her strong mind and spirit-but Stevenson imbues her speech with wonderful shades of passion as Anne is reacquainted with Capt. Wentworth, whom she has continued to love despite being forced, years before, to reject him over status issues. Listening to Stevenson, as Anne, describe a sudden encounter with Wentworth, one hardly needs Austen's description of how Anne grows faint-Stevenson's perfectly judged and deeply felt reading has already shown that she must have. Even those who have read Austen's novels will find themselves loving this book all over again with Stevenson's evocative rendition ringing richly in their ears. (Apr.)
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Publishers Weekly
Stevenson has read all of Austen's novels for audiobook, in abridged or unabridged versions, and her experience shows in this delightful production. Though dominated by the intelligent, sweet voice of Anne Elliot-the least favored but most worthy of three daughters in a family with an old name but declining fortunes-Stevenson provides other characters with memorable voices as well. She reads Anne's haughty father's lines with a mixture of stuffiness and bluster, and Anne's sisters are portrayed with a hilariously flighty, breathy register that makes Austen's contempt for them palpable. Anne's voice is mostly measured and reasonable-an expression of her strong mind and spirit-but Stevenson imbues her speech with wonderful shades of passion as Anne is reacquainted with Capt. Wentworth, whom she has continued to love despite being forced, years before, to reject him over status issues. Listening to Stevenson, as Anne, describe a sudden encounter with Wentworth, one hardly needs Austen's description of how Anne grows faint-Stevenson's perfectly judged and deeply felt reading has already shown that she must have. Even those who have read Austen's novels will find themselves loving this book all over again with Stevenson's evocative rendition ringing richly in their ears. (Apr.)
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