Anne Elliot reconnects with former love Captain Wentworth amid family vanity, social class tensions, and second chances in Regency England.
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Anne Elliot reconnects with former love Captain Wentworth amid family vanity, social class tensions, and second chances in Regency England.
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 fortune nor 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 ...
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Central romance with tender emotions, embraces, and restrained affection
No violence depicted
No profanity present
Occasional social drinking at dinners and gatherings
No LGBTQ+ representation
Minor references to church and clergy
No magic or witchcraft
No occult content
Explores class distinctions and naval merit versus aristocracy
No self-harm or suicide
Emotional suffering from family pressures and lost love
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