Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and no longer considered young, with few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth. Fredrick was a handsome naval captain without fortune or rank. What happens when they meet again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable circles of Lyme Regis and Bath, "Persuasion" offers a brilliant satire on vanity and pretension, but above all, it is a love story tinged with the sorrow of missed opportunities.