Persuasión

Outstanding precursor of the modern novel, Jane Austen (1775-1817) is distinguished by the penetrating and ironic portrait that, in her capacity as woman and writer, she realizes of the society in which she lived, its conventions, its mechanisms and its consequences. , with a subtle intelligence that often makes it go unnoticed. The protagonist of "Persuasion" is Anne Elliot, the middle daughter of a vain Sir with a minor title. It was precisely his ínfulas of greatness that led years ago to the young woman to reject, despite her feelings, the marriage with a then young military man of uncertain future. But wars change fortunes, and the exploits of that officer have turned him, when they meet again, into a wealthy captain of Her Majesty's Army. Still hurt by that old snub, Captain Wentworth will now, when he makes his will to marry known, show his indifference to Anne