Persuasion

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Jane Austen: Persuasion (2009, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks)

345 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2009 by Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.

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Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her family.

131 editions

Subjects

  • Ship captains
  • Motherless families
  • Fiction
  • Rejection (Psychology)
  • Young women