Publisher's Synopsis
Jane Austen's last - and in some instances, most biting - work Persuasion, was published in 1818, just after Austen's death. In it, Anne Elliott, as likable as any heroine but for one instance of bad judgment when she broke off her engagement to a poor naval officer at the behest of friends and family, comes face-to-face with the suitor she jilted long ago. He is now wealthy, she is still single, and while the machinations of shallower and feebler minds initially keep the erstwhile lovers apart, in the end, as in all Austen novels, true love must triumph.
