Persuasion | jane austen, christopher hall

Jane Austens debut in our award-winning graphic-cover series.

Written during Jane Austens race against failing health, Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who-at twenty-seven-is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.

Eight years ago, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank.

When Anne and Frederick meet again, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of her rejection.

A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Austens last completed novel is also a movingly told love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.