num_pages: 250
description: 'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older' At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen’s last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.In her introduction, Gillian Beer discusses Austen’s portrayal of the double-edged nature of persuasion and the clash between old and new worlds. This edition also includes a new chronology and full textual notes.
language: English
title: Persuasion
titlecomplete: Persuasion
characters: Louisa Musgrove, Mary Musgrove, Captain James Benwick, Captain Frederick Wentworth, Henrietta Musgrove, Mrs. Smith, Lady Russell, Admiral Croft, Captain Harville, Penelope Clay, Charles Musgrove, Sir Walter Elliot, Anne Elliot, William Elliot, Elizabeth Elliot, Sophia Croft
genres: Audiobook, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, Historical Romance, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 673124
places: Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, England, Somerset, England, Lyme Regis, England
publisher: Penguin Classics