More than eight years prior to the novel’s start, Anne Elliot was persuaded to break off her engagement to a young naval officer. Now he has returned to her life, a wealthy captain, and has his eye on marrying an eligible young woman—but not, under any circumstance, Anne.
Laced with Austen’s trademark wit, and inventive consideration of the state of women in the period, Persuasion is a classic novel of manners. It was her last novel to be published, though she began it early in her career and it has connections to her first book, Northanger Abbey.
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