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Persuasion (1818), published the year after Jane Austen's death, follows Anne Elliot — at twenty-seven, no longer young by the lights of her world — as the man she was once persuaded to refuse, Captain Frederick Wentworth, returns from the wars a made man. Across Kellynch, Uppercross, Lyme, and Bath, Austen traces what eight years of silence have done to two people who were right the first time. The most muted and most adult of her novels.
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