With an essay by Elizabeth Bowen 'Her attachment and regrets had for a long time clouded
every enjoyment of youth and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect'
Persuasion Jane Austen's last novel is a moving masterly and elegiac love story tinged with
the heartache of missed opportunities. It tells the story of Anne Elliot who persuaded to
break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not successful enough has never
forgotten him. When he returns he brings with him a tantalizing second chance of happiness ...
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth
century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
