description: At 27, 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 lovestory tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
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: 673154
places: Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, England, Somerset, England, Lyme Regis, England
publisher: Penguin Audiobooks