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Persuasion

by Jane Austen · 1817

Classics · ranked #31 in category

Anne Elliot, persuaded against her better judgment to break off her engagement to the naval officer Frederick Wentworth, encounters him again years later — now successful and still unmarried. Austen's last completed novel is her most melancholy and most quietly feminist, written as she was dying and published posthumously.

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Category
Classics
First published
1817 · 1810s
Author
Jane Austen
Standing
Essential Read

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