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