Persuasion/
Jane Austen ; Jane Austen ; edited with an introduction and notes by Gillian Beer.
- xxxvii, 250 pages ; 20 cm.
- Penguin classics .
- Penguin classics .
Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend La.