num_pages: 271
description: Jane Austen’s last completed novel, a brilliantly insightful story of regret, second chances, and the courage to follow our hearts Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried—by all accounts a spinster in her time—seemingly doomed to spend the rest of her life waiting on her image-obsessed father and extravagant older sister; attempting to maintain their once lavish, now dwindling family estate; and occasionally babysitting the children of her married younger sister. It wasn’t always this way, though. When Anne was nineteen, she was in love with and engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a man with no money and few prospects. Anne’s well-meaning family and friends convinced her that a young heiress like herself could do better, so she broke off the engagement. But when chance brings Wentworth and Anne together again eight years later, he is now an accomplished naval captain with an impressive fortune, and Anne must face her feelings for him that remain and consider how different her life could have been if only she hadn’t been so easily persuaded by others.
language: English
title: Persuasion
titlecomplete: Persuasion
characters: Captain Harville, Lady Russell, Sophia Croft, William Elliot, Henrietta Musgrove, Mary Musgrove, Louisa Musgrove, Anne Elliot, Charles Musgrove, Sir Walter Elliot, Captain James Benwick, Admiral Croft, Elizabeth Elliot, Captain Frederick Wentworth, Penelope Clay, Mrs. Smith
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, Historical Romance, Historical, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Audiobook
ratings_count: 673245
places: England, United Kingdom, Somerset, England, Bath, Somerset, England, Lyme Regis, England
publisher: Bantam Classics