Persuasion Editions:Macmillan Classics Why am I not dead

Why am I not dead

One wrong move

In a shabby house in the new capital of Madrid

At thirty-two

s brother is arrested for treason

Persuasion Editions:Macmillan Classics Why am I not deadPersuasion 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