Written during Jane Austen\'s race against failing health, Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who - at twenty-seven - is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.
A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Austen\'s last completed novel is also a movingly told love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities..
When Anne and Frederick meet again, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of her rejection.
Eight years ago, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank.
Written during Jane Austen\'s race against failing health, Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who - at twenty-seven - is no longer young and has few romantic prospects
