Persuasion / Jane Austen ; introduction by Uzma Jalaluddin.

Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried--by all accounts a spinster in her time--seemingly soomed to spend the rest of her life waiting on her image-obsessed father and extravagant older sister, attempting to maintain their once lavish, now dwindling family estate, and occasionally babysitting the children of her married younger sister. It wasn't always this way, though. When Anne was nineteen, she was in love with and engaged to Frederick Wentworth, a man with no money and few prspects. Anne's well-meaning family and friends convinced her that a young heiress like herself could do better, so she broke off the engagement. But when chance bring Wentworth and Anne together again eight years later, he is now an accomplished naval captain with an impressive fortune, and Anne must face her lingering feelings for him and consider how different her life could have been if only she hadn't been so easily persuaded by others. In Jane Austen's final novel, completed months before her death, she weaves a moving, brilliantly insightful story of regret, second chances, and the courage we must find within ourselves to epress our truest feelings and follow our hearts