The Penguin English Library Edition" of " Persuasion" by Jane Austen. ' Her attachment & regrets had for a long time clouded every enjoyment of youth; & an early loss of bloom & spirits had been their lasting effect'. " Persuasion" Jane Austen's last novel is a moving masterly & 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. " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."