Known for their elegantly stunning cover designs, all inspired by some of humanity’s greatest cultural achievements, Paperblanks Hardcover Journals are designed to inspire you to find your muse and blaze your own path forward. Stretch out on custom-designed laid paper to detail your thoughts and feelings, your plans and achievements. To minimize distractions and ease your path forward, each journal features lay-flat, smyth-sewn binding. Persuasion Cover Design鈥擩ane Austen’s novel Persuasion (1818) is the author’s most biting and ironic work; and in the novel, Austen gives us a satisfying love story while also turning a critical gaze on the kinds of persuasion enforced on young women. This book’s cover depicts a rare, reproduced page taken from the eleventh chapter of the author’s surviving manuscript. Pocket Sized: No; Book-Binding Type: Sewn; Book-Binding Details: Smyth-Sewn: Hard Cover; Book-Binding Edge: Side.