Evelina, 2nd Edition
Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World
$22.05
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
27 July 2008
Summary
Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!
Frances Burney’s first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine’s entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199536931 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199536937 |
| Author: | Frances Burney, Vivien Jones, Edward A. Bloom |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 27 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 347g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 126mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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`Fanny Burney’s first novel Evelina was the chick-lit novel of 1778 - all about a young girl’s adventures in London, and one of the best of its kind ever written…the Oxford World’s Classics edition has a knowledgeable preface by Edward A. Bloom’Derwent May, the Times
About The Author
Frances Burney
Burney established her reputation with her novel Evelina. After a period in Queen Charlotte’s court, she and her husband, Alexander d’Arblay, were interned by Napoleon and lived in France until 1815. Widowed in 1818, she spent the rest of her life in London.
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