Persuasion (Annotated)

Jane Austen's Persuasion is a refined late novel of memory, regret, and moral renewal, centered on Anne Elliot, a woman persuaded in youth to reject Captain Wentworth and forced years later to confront the consequences of that choice. Written with Austen's characteristic irony but marked by a more autumnal, inward style than her earlier comedies, the novel belongs to the tradition of domestic real...