Persuasion (Vintage Classics Austen Series)Part of the Vintage Classics Austen Series all six of Jane Austen's major novels, beautifully designed by writer and illustrator Leanne Shapton and introduced by our finest contemporary writers. Persuasion is a sort of private novel. In the heroine Anne Elliot, we have glimpses of Austen and what happened to her; the lost romance and the lost youth. Eight years ago, Anne Elliot bowed to pressure from her family and made the decision not to marry the