Persuasion is the story of Anne Elliot, a young woman persuaded to reject the man she loved 8 years before the events in the novel. Faced with no future except a dreary existence in her vain father's house and listening to the complaints of her older sister, Anne meekly follows her family to Bath, but is unexpectedly thrown into company with her former beau. Anne realizes that her feelings are unchanged, but what about his?

The tension between Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth.

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Read more. Jane Austen characters are so vivid, you don't want to give them up easily.

Happy, like all of Jane Austen's works.

One can never say enough good things about Jane Austen. Her insight into the human personality is sheer genius.

A very good romance, clean and with enough tension to satisfy the hopeless romantic in all of us.

No reason not to.

This is one of my favorite Austen novels and well displays how little independence a young woman had when not married in the Regency era.

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