Sadly, the movie wasn't as good as the book.Synopsis from Amazon UK:
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, it is a love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities.
My rating: 5 stars
Publication information:
- First published in 1818 with Northanger Abbey by John Murray, London
- First edition: Four twelvemo volumes. xxiv, 300; [4], 331, [1, blank]; [4], 280; [4], 308, [4, blank] pp. Bound with the half-titles in all volumes and with the final blank leaves P7 and P8 in Volume IV.
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