Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 4: Persuasion

Word count 19,370 Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.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...

• | Author: Jane Austen
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 10, 2008
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780194791816
• | ISBN-10: 0194791815