Persuasion By Jane Austen

Persuasion By Jane AustenPersuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. It tells the story of Anne Elliot, who, persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not successful enough, has never forgotten him. When he returns, he brings with him a tantalizing second chance of happiness.

Ten months during which she has haunted the rooms of her old New York house like a ghost

but he never came out

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