Persuasion
/pəˈsweɪʒn/
/pərˈsweɪʒn/
- a romantic novel (1818) by Jane Austen, the last book she wrote. The main character is Anne Elliot, who refuses Frederick Wentworth's offer of marriage but regrets doing so and accepts when he asks her again several years later.
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