Persuasion

Jane Austen’s beloved and subtly subversive final novel of romantic tension and second chances. Now a motion picture from Netflix starring Dakota Johnson and Henry Golding,and a TikTok Book Club Pick. At twenty-\u00adsevenAnne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earliershe had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentwortha 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 BathPersuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretensionbutabove allit is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. For more than seventy yearsPenguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700 titlesPenguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authorsas well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.