EBOOK Persuasion

'She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew        older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.'Anne Elliot seems to have        given up on present happiness and has resigned herself to living off her memories.          More than seven years earlier she complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as        imprudent and improper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neither        fortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives and brings the        Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more, she starts to believe in        second chances.Persuasion celebrates romantic constancy in an era of turbulent        change. Written as the Napoleonic Wars were ending, the novel examines how a woman        can at once remain faithful to her past and still move forward into the        future.