235 pages

English language

Published May 21, 1998 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
9780140434675

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Persuasion tells the love story of Anne Elliot and Captain Frederick Wentworth, whose sister rents Miss Elliot's father's house, after the Napoleonic Wars come to an end. The story is set in 1814. The book itself is Jane Austen's last published book, published posthumously in December of 1818.

182 editions

Subjects

  • Young women -- Fiction
  • Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction
  • Motherless families -- Fiction
  • Ship captains -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction