Persuasion

Persuasion is a novel written by Jane Austen and published posthumously in December 1817, six months after her death, in the same volumes as Northanger Abbey.

Set in England at the dawn of the 19th century, the novel presents the story of Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth.

Anne was engaged to Wentworth eight years earlier and was persuaded to break it off by Lady Russell, her late mother's friend, who thought the match imprudent. When Wentworth comes back, now a wealthy naval captain, the two are thrown together again.

Unlike Pride and Prejudice, the protagonist here is a woman of twenty-seven who already knows what love is and what it costs to lose it. Anne is able, despite the obstacles of her family, to decide her destiny and to be able to choose whom she will love.