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Persuasion

By Jane Austen

Cover of Persuasion

Cover: Woman at a Window (Frau am Fenster), 1822 by Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) · Wikimedia Commons (Google Art Project; Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin) · Public domain

Persuasion is the last novel completed by the English author Jane Austen. It was published with Northanger Abbey on 20 December 1817, six months after her death, although the title page is dated 1818. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a 27-year-old Englishwoman whose family moves to Bath to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their estate to an admiral and his wife. Eight years before, Anne and the wife's brother, Captain Frederick Wentworth, had been engaged, but Anne had been persuaded by her friends and family to break the engagement. Now Anne and Captain Wentworth meet again, setting the scene for the story.

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Chapter 1
  2. 2: Chapter 2
  3. 3: Chapter 3
  4. 4: Chapter 4
  5. 5: Chapter 5
  6. 6: Chapter 6
  7. 7: Chapter 7
  8. 8: Chapter 8
  9. 9: Chapter 9
  10. 10: Chapter 10
  11. 11: Chapter 11
  12. 12: Chapter 12
  13. 13: Chapter 13
  14. 14: Chapter 14
  15. 15: Chapter 15
  16. 16: Chapter 16
  17. 17: Chapter 17
  18. 18: Chapter 18
  19. 19: Chapter 19
  20. 20: Chapter 20
  21. 21: Chapter 21
  22. 22: Chapter 22
  23. 23: Chapter 23
  24. 24: Chapter 24