Evelina - Couverture souple

Burney, Fanny

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192815962 ISBN 13 : 9780192815965

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1982

Synopsis

Book by Fanny Burney

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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 customs of a society she doesn't understand, she finds herself without hope that she should ever deserve the attention of the man she loves. Frances Burney's first novel brilliantly sends up eighteenth-century society - and its opinions of women - while enticingly depicting its delights.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this 3-volume epistolary novel, title character Evelina is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, thus raised in rural seclusion until her 17th year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers of 18th-century society and earn the love of a distinguished nobleman. This sentimental novel, which has notions of sensibility and early romanticism, satirizes the society in which it is set and is a significant precursor to the work of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0192815962
• ISBN 13: 9780192815965
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Éditeur: Bloom Edward A.