Persuasion - PFFT Reads

No cover — Jane Austen: Persuasion (2009, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks)

345 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 2009 by Simon & Schuster Paperbacks.

(1 review)

Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her family.

132 editions

sarah reviewed Persuasion by Jane Austen

no notes, just perfect

5 stars

rereading Jane Austen, as one does, and I just adore this one. Choose your Jane fighter and I will always choose Anne Elliott.

Subjects

Ship captains
Motherless families
Fiction
Rejection (Psychology)
Young women