Persuasion

　　．評價更勝《理性與感性》的愛情小說
　　．BBC2007年新影集《勸服》原著
　　
　　一段因被勸服而放棄的舊情，
　　一段因忠於自我而獲得的真愛，
　　迂迴的女性心路肯定值得再三回味！！
　　
　　身為從男爵千金，安在十九歲時與青年海軍軍官溫特伍相戀，私訂婚約。但卻因男方家無恆產且地位卑微，這段純樸的姻緣，便在父親沃特爵士和她最信任的教母羅素夫人勸說反對下告終。
　　
　　八年過去了，已晉身海軍上校、頗有一番積蓄的溫特伍重回故地。因緣際會之下，安與昔日戀人再度重逢。以眼神猜心的一場捉迷藏自此上演，兩人該如何化解昔日的情怨、擺脫旁人的意見牽絆，以彼此真心相對……
　　
　　年屆不惑的才女珍．奧斯汀，以創新的筆法與不同以往作品的成熟角度，描繪出一段曲折多磨的成人愛情。

　　此中文簡介取自中譯本<<勸服>>由好讀 出版

　　First published in 1818, Persuasion was Jane Austen's last work. Its mellow character and autumnal tone have long made it a favorite with Austen readers. Set in Somersetshire and Bath, the novel revolves around the lives and love affair of Sir Walter Elliot, his daughters Elizabeth, Anne, and Mary, and various in-laws, friends, suitors, and other characters, In Anne Elliot, the author created perhaps her sweetest, most appealing heroine.

　　At the center of the novel is Anne's thwarted romance with Captain Frederick Wentworth, a navy man Anne met and fell in love with when she was 19. At the time, Wentworth was deemed an unsuitable match and Anne was forced to break off the relationship. Eight years later, however, they meet again. By this time Captain Wentworth has made his fortune in the navy and is an attractive "catch." However, Anne is now uncertain about his feelings for her. But after various twists and turns of fortune, the novel ends on a happy note.

　　In Persuasion, as in such novels as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Austen limned the plight of young women who could escape the constraints of family life only by marrying, and suggest the foolishness of women who believed they were free and not dependent on the financial and social resources of men. At the same time, Persuasion offers an ironic and subtle paean to the true love that enables one woman to rise above straitened economic circumstances and the stifling social conventions that restricted women to narrowly circumscribed lives in the common sitting room.

　　Sure to appeal to admirers of Jane Austen, Persuasion will delight any reader with its finely drawn characters, gentle satire, and charming re-creation of the genteel world of the 19th-century English countryside.

珍．奧斯汀（Jane Austen, 1775 ~ 1817）

　　珍．奧斯汀出生於英國鄉村裡的 一個牧師家庭中，她從來沒有受過正規的教育，可是卻是英國文學史上公認的才女。珍於17歲開始進行寫作，不過直到36歲她的第一部小說《理性與感性》才問 世，而且她的作品大多是以匿名方式發表，唯有《諾桑覺寺》和《勸服》兩部小說是以真名發表。此外，珍還有《愛瑪》、《曼斯菲爾德莊園》等作品留世，並深受 大眾所喜愛。

　　Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist whose works are among the most popular novels ever written. Her keen eye for social tension, and ear for taut, witty dialogue have delighted readers for centuries, while her novels have maintained historical importance through their analysis of the dependence of women on marriage to gain social standing and security. She has been widely adapted for both stage and screen, and continues to be among the most widely-read of late-18th-/early 19th-century writers.