Persuasion

Persuasion--------------------------------------------------She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romanceas she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.'Anne Elliot seems to have given up on present happiness and has resignedherself to living off her memories. More than seven years earliershe complied with duty: persuaded to view the match as imprudent andimproper, she broke off her engagement to a naval captain with neitherfortune, ancestry, nor prospects. However, when peacetime arrives andbrings the Navy home, and Anne encounters Captain Wentworth once more,she starts to believe in second chances. Persuasion celebrates romanticconstancy in an era of turbulent change. Written as the NapoleonicWars were ending, the novel examines how a woman can at once remainfaithful to her past and still move forward into the future.