num_pages: 304
description: 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.
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: 673194
places: Bath, Somerset, England, England, Lyme Regis, England, United Kingdom, Somerset, England
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd