The Day x Connell Guides - The Connell Guide to Jane Austen's Persuasion

Persuasion is the story of a life that might have been wasted, but is redeemed by love. It must appeal, as a leading critic once put it, “to anyone who has experienced the sense of an irreparably ruined life owing to an irrevocable mistaken decision”. Remarkable for its intensity of feeling and the sympathetic treatment of its lonely heroine, Anne Elliot, Persuasion is probably Austen’s best-loved novel after Pride and Prejudice. In this short book, John Wiltshire, one of the most sensitive modern critics of Austen, explains what makes it so special.