Jane Austen's last novel. English original edition- Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of missed opportunities. It tells the story of Anne Elliot, who, persuaded to break off her engagement to the man she loved because he was not successful enough, has never forgotten him. When he returns, he brings with him a tantalizing second chance of happiness ... Jane Austen was born in Steventon Rectory (Hampshire, England) on 16 December 1775. She began writing Pride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. She published four of her novels in her lifetime, Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1818. Il Disoriente A paperback and e-book series published by Intra. Global readability, Italian charm.