Of all Jane Austen’s great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance at true love. Now a Netflix Film. Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish Sir Walter Elliot, is woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she was nineteen she fell in love with—and was engaged to—a naval officer, the fearless and headstrong Captain Wentworth. But the young man had no fortune, and Anne allowed herself to be persuaded to give him up. Now, eight years later, Wentworth has returned to the neighborhood, a rich man and still unwed. Anne’s never-diminished love is muffled by her pride, and he seems cold and unforgiving. What happens as the two are thrown together in the social world of Bath—and as an eager new suitor appears for Anne—is touchingly and wittily told in a masterpiece that is also one of the most entrancing novels in the English language.

准男爵の娘アン・エリオットは二十七歳、独身で、影の薄い存在だ。八年前、周囲から反対されて海軍軍人のウェントワースとの結婚をあきらめたことが、いまだにアンの心に影を落としている。しかし、そんなアンに思いがけない再会が待ち受けていた。イングランドの美しい自然を舞台に、人生の移ろいと繊細な恋心をしみじみと描くオースティン最晩年の傑作。