Persuasion was Jane Austen’s last completed novel, published six months after her death in 1817. The story follows docile Anne Elliot who, eight years ago, allowed friends and family to persuade her to break off her engagement to a young man who was seen as too common and poor to marry the daughter of a baronet. When Frederick Wentworth comes back into Anne’s life as a wealthy, eligible naval captain, she must contend with her re-emerging feelings for him and his bitterness over her past rejection.
As with her other novels, Austen wittily portrays an amusing and complex cast of characters in this story of a second chance at love. Anne Elliot, more mature and quietly observant than other Austen heroines, leads by example as she navigates snobbish family, well-meaning but misguided friends, and unwanted suitors.
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This classic novel of manners is available as an eBook and eAudiobook through Overdrive and RBdigital. Anyone with a Forsyth County Public Library card can sign up for a free Overdrive and RBdigital account. Sign up for a free card today to start enjoying FCPL's digital catalog from wherever you are!
Those who enjoy Persuasion may also like the Austen-influenced books The Cookbook Collector, by Allegra Goodman, and The Austen Escape, by Katherine Reay, as well as any of Jane Austen’s other books.
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