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Persuasion
by Jane Austen
Categories: Classics Novel Romance Women's Fiction
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When she least expects it, love is put to the test of time for lonely Anne Elliot. After the unhappy ending of a love affair, Anne has spent precious years in the shadows. Her lonely life is a cruel consequence of long ago honoring her family's wishes over her own. Everything changes, however, when her old flame—Frederick Wentworth—suddenly returns, bringing long-silent emotions and desires burning back to life. Twists and turns, old secrets and new romances will leave you wondering until the final moments—is it at last Anne’s turn to be happy and to be loved?
About the Author
Educated and trained in her craft largely within her family home, Jane Austen (1775-1817) developed a singularly sharp eye and keen wit for chronicling the lives, loves, and misadventures of the English gentry. Although little-read during her lifetime, Austen has since been awarded a lasting place as one of the most brilliant English women ever to put pen to paper. Austen's novels Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey welcome readers of all ages and eras to delight in their timeless humor and poignancy.
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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by contemplating the ...
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