
Persuasion
Summary
"Persuasion" by Jane Austen is a novel published in 1817. Eight years after being persuaded to break off her engagement to naval officer Frederick Wentworth, twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot encounters him again when his sister rents her family's estate. Now wealthy and eligible, Wentworth mingles with Anne's social circle while she quietly observes, her feelings unchanged. As misunderstandings unfold and new attachments form, the story explores whether second chances at love are possible when pride and past regrets stand between two hearts. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Rights & provenance
Public domain in the USA.
EU distribution not verified
Subjects (13)
- Love stories
- Young women -- Fiction
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Novels
- Psychological fiction
- Ship captains -- Fiction
- First loves -- Fiction
- PR
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Regency fiction



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