num_pages: 281
description: Last novel by Jane Austen completed just a few months prior to her death in 1816. The main character is Ane Elliot, the daughter of a vain and foolish baronet and widower, Sir Walter Elliot. Anne is 27 and unmarried. She had been engaged to a young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but was persuaded to break off the engagement. Later she meets him again and love is rekindled, but does the 8 years absence make a problem? This is less satiric that Austen's earlier works. Persuasion is the brilliant story of a woman who was "forced into prudence" in her youoth but learned true romance as she grew older.
language: English
title: Persuasion
titlecomplete: Persuasion
characters: Captain Harville, Sir Walter Elliot, Anne Elliot, Sophia Croft, Penelope Clay, Mrs. Smith, Elizabeth Elliot, Admiral Croft, William Elliot, Lady Russell, Louisa Musgrove, Captain Frederick Wentworth, Charles Musgrove, Captain James Benwick, Mary Musgrove, Henrietta Musgrove
genres: Classics, Historical, Historical Romance, Classic Literature, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 673282
places: Bath, Somerset, England, England, Lyme Regis, England, United Kingdom, Somerset, England
publisher: TALLY HALL PRESS