Persuasion

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

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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.

ISBN: 9781695599857

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"Captain Frederick Wentworth in Persuasion, is partly of interest to the female sex because of the 'prize' loot he has extracted from his encounters with Bonaparte's navy."