Persuasion

US: Chiltern Publishing, 2020. Hardcover. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Notes From Your Bookseller The Jane Austen brand is well established. Satire, love, quippy dialogue-an d it's all here in her final novel. It's the story of Anne and Frederick, o nce engaged, now meeting again nearly a decade later. Will love win out? Pr obably. Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight yea rs before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval offi cer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement w hen persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and long-lasting regret. When later Wentwo rth returns from sea a rich and successful captain, he finds Anne's family on the brink of financial ruin and his own sister a tenant in Kellynch Hall , the Elliot estate. Al the tension of the novel revolves around one questi on: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love? Jane Austin once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory, 2 inches square. Readers of Persuasion will discover that neither her skill for delicate, ironic observations on social custom, love, and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus lens to English manners and morals has deserted her in her final finished work.