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Persuasion

Jane Austen

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1817
Pages
Pages 275

Eight years after being persuaded to refuse a poor sailor she loved, a fading gentlewoman meets him again, now a rich captain, and wins her second chance through steadiness.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.
Persuasion, Jane Austen

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