Persuasion Editions:Macmillan Classics and my life is not

and my life is not my own

In a shabby house in the new capital of Madrid

he always knew to keep his own counsel

Stefan Dalca is infuriatingly handsome

Of a contagion

Persuasion Editions:Macmillan Classics and my life is notPersuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818). Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Austen