Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning
Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality
colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. At twenty-seven Anne Elliot is no
longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier she had been persuaded by her
friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth a handsome naval
captain with neither fortunenor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is
movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme
Regis and Bath Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension but above all it is
a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
