Persuasion

by Jane Austen

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"Persuasion" by Jane Austen is a novel published in 1817. Eight years after being persuaded to break off her engagement to naval officer Frederick Wentworth, twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot encounters him again when his sister rents her family's estate. Now wealthy and eligible, Wentworth mingles with Anne's social circle while she quietly observes, her feelings unchanged.

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