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Persuasion
A Literary Fiction Novel by Jane Austen
Subgenres:
- Romance,
- Second Chance Romance,
- Comedy of Manners
This book is for you if you're into...
- Romantic tension built on years of longing and regret
- Sharp satire of high society's vanity and pretension
- Second-chance love stories set in Regency England
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We cannot talk about second chance romances without taking on the original: Jane Austen’s aching tale of lost love, societal expectations, and awful family members.
Anne Elliot has always regretted breaking off her engagement with Frederick Wentworth after she was told he had no prospects. Now, a 27-year-old spinster, she's worried that she'll be alone forever. Then Frederick returns after years at sea. He's rich, successful, and still the love of her life. But surely there's no such thing as another shot at love for the heartbroken pair?
Jane Austen's beloved and subtly subversive final novel of romantic tension and second chances.
Now a motion picture from Netflix starring Dakota Johnson and Henry Golding, and a TikTok Book Club Pick.
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.
Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank.
What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel.
Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
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