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Persuasion
Eight years after she was persuaded to refuse the man she loved, Anne Elliot meets him again, now a wealthy naval captain, and must watch him court others while her own faded hopes quietly stir. Austen’s most autumnal novel.
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The most quietly moving of Austen’s novels, a grown-up story about regret and constancy, crowned by one of the great love letters in English. Her farewell, and many readers’ favourite.
SettingSomerset and Bath, 1810s
Regency England among the fading gentry and the rising navy, where a woman’s one chance at happiness could turn on a single word of advice.