Persuasion: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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Persuasion is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Austen, Jane (1775–1817).
Catalogue synopsis
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"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.
Book and edition facts
- Title: Persuasion
- Author credits: Austen, Jane (1775–1817)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- First loves -- Fiction
- Love stories
- Motherless families -- Fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Regency fiction
- Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Ship captains -- Fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
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- Category: British Literature
- Category: Novels
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