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Persuasion
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2015-01-27
- Rating
- ★ 4.1 · 727 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
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In nineteenth-century England, Anne Elliot was persuaded by family to break her engagement to naval officer Frederick Wentworth because his modest means made him a poor match. Nearly a decade later, after her family loses their fortune through ill-advised investments and is forced to rent out Kellynch Hall and relocate to Bath, Anne encounters Wentworth again—now a captain. Their reunion in Bath offers Anne a second chance at the love she once rejected, set against Austen's sharp social commentary on class, regret, and persuasion.
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- Second Chance Romance: “what could be her second and final chance at love and marriage” source
- Regency: “love in nineteenth-century England” source
- Slow Burn: “One refused marriage and nearly a decade later, Anne has not forgotten about Wentworth” source
- Forbidden Love: “Wentworth's modest means made him a poor choice for the Elliot family, and Anne was persuaded to call off the engagement” source
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