num_pages: 325
description: Anne Elliot, daughter of a snobbish, spendthrift Sir Walter Elliot, is a woman of a quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen, she fell in love with - and was engaged to - a naval officer, the fearless and headstrong Captain Wentworth. But the young man had no fortune, and Anne allowed herself to be persuaded, against her profoundest instinct, to give him up.Now, at twenty-seven, and believing that she has lost her bloom, Anne is startled to learn that Captain Wentworth has returned to the neighborhood, a rich man and still unwed. Her never-diminished love is muffled by her pride. Even worse, he appears to be infatuated by the flighty and pretty Louisa Musgrove.What happens as Anne and Wentworth are thrown together in the social world of Bath - and as an eager new suitor appears for Anne - is touchingly and wittily told in a masterpiece that is also one of the most entrancing novels in the English language.Of all Jane Austen's novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.
language: English
title: Persuasion
titlecomplete: Persuasion
characters: Admiral Croft, Henrietta Musgrove, Captain Harville, Mary Musgrove, Mrs. Smith, Sophia Croft, Charles Musgrove, Lady Russell, Sir Walter Elliot, William Elliot, Captain Frederick Wentworth, Anne Elliot, Elizabeth Elliot, Louisa Musgrove, Captain James Benwick, Penelope Clay
genres: Historical, Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Classic Literature, 19th Century, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 673255
places: Somerset, England, Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom, England, Lyme Regis, England
publisher: Everyman's Library