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Jane Austen's most moving novel--a story of second chances--now with a new introduction in honor of Austen's 250th birthday.
Of all Jane Austen's great novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most poignant. Anne Elliott, daughter of the snobbish Sir Walter Elliott, is a woman of 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 to give him up.
Now, eight years later, Wentworth has returned to the neighborhood a rich man and still unwed. Anne's undiminished love is muffled by her pride, and he seems cold and unforgiving. What happens as the two are thrown together in the social whirl 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.
