"Persuasion" is a great literary work, and, to my mind, Jane Austen's finest book. This was her final completed novel before her death and was written in 1816 and was published posthumously in 1818. The title was not chosen by Jane Austen.
"Jane Austen's Persuasion focuses on the regret and loneliness of Anne Elliot, who had rejected a proposal of marriage from the one man she truly loved.