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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 155111237X
ISBN-13: 9781551112374
Jul 2000
Publisher: Broadview Pr
694 pages
Broadview Literary Texts Series
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Fanny Burney's lighthearted first novel, completed after nine years of secret labor, was published anonymously in January 1778. Before the end of that year, it had gone through four editions--a huge popular success. In Burney's own words, it is the story, written in letters, of a young woman "of obscure birth, but conspicuous beauty," who "makes, at the age of seventeen, her first appearance upon the great and busy stage of life; with a virtuous mind, a cultivated understanding, and a feeling heart, her ignorance of the forms, and inexperience in the manners of the world, occasion all the little incidents which these volumes record." As a chronicle of life in 18th-century England, EVELINA is incomparable, Burney's heroine is a lovable (and unerringly perfect!) young woman, and the entire novel is leavened by its author's sharp satirical eye.
| Details | | Series: | Broadview Literary Texts Series |
| Size | | Length: | 694 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 23.2 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relator or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied."
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