Persuasion - Jane Austenová

27-year-old Anne Elliot is Austen's most grown-up female protagonist. Eight years before the story starts appropriately, she is cheerfully pledged to a marine official, Frederick Wentworth, however, she abruptly severs the commitment when convinced by her companion Lady Russell that such a match is contemptible. The separation produces in Anne a profound and enduring misgiving. When later Wentworth gets back from the ocean a rich and fruitful chief, he tracks down Anne's family near the precarious... Zobrazit více