by Jane Austen
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Twentysevenyear old Anne Elliot is Austen's most Adult, heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy. The breakup produces in Anne a deep and longlasting ...
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