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Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot lives with her pompous father and her snobbish older sister Elizabeth. Eight years prior, she was engaged to be married to Captain Frederick Wentworth, who was deemed an unworthy suitor by her father and sister, for his social rank.
She was persuaded to end the engagement, leaving Captain Wentworth quite disappointed.
Once the Napoleonic wars end, Frederick Wentworth returns from them with prize money and a higher rank. When Anne encounters him again, she realizes that her feelings for him run deep. But will Captain Wentworth, now an eligible bachelor and the talk of the town, choose her and be persuaded to give her a second chance? Or would he much rather prefer a fresh start?
Persuasion is as much a love story as it is a sharp satire and social commentary on the fickle nature of human behaviour.
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Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 in Hampshire. Shewas an English novelist with books set among the 19th century middleand upper classes of England. Her stories were known and applauded for theirwit, social critique and insights. She began to write as a teenager and herbrother, Henry, helped negotiate with a publisher to print her first novel, Senseand Sensibility. Her famous work, Pride and Prejudice, has receivedlove for centuries and has had several film adaptations. All of Jane's workswere published anonymously. Jane Austen passed in 1817 with two novels, Persuasionand Northanger Abbey published posthumously. A final novel was leftincomplete.
