Evelina
$26.18
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
16 July 2012
Summary
Launching a major new paperback series - The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Evelina by Frances Burney
‘O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of happiness!’
In this comic and sharply incisive satire of excess and affectations, beautiful young Evelina falls victim to the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby on her entrance to the world of fashionable London. Colliding with the manners and custom…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141198866 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141198869 |
| Author: | Frances Burney |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 16 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 351g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 22mm |
| Series: | The Penguin English Library |
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About The Author
Frances Burney
Frances ‘Fanny’ Burney (1752-1840) was one of the leading cultural figures of eighteenth-century London. Her enormously successful novel Evelina, written in her mid-twenties, creates a magical picture of the particularly clever, vigorous and leisured society at whose heart she stood. First publishing anonymously, her own father did not know that she was the writer of Evelina until its successful reception encouraged her to reveal her secret. One of the great letter-writers and conversationalists of the period, Burney was also the author of the novels Cecilia and Camilla, and was a major influence on Jane Austen.
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