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Camilla - Couverture souple

Burney, Fanny

 
9780192816627: Camilla

Synopsis

Textual notes and critical analysis accompany this edition of the eighteenth-century novel depicting the social and moral dilemmas of the young.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The novel illustrates the feelings that arise out of desire. It propounds on simple human emotions and comments on how the fire of craving destroys the individual. Burney delves into the theme that ambition destroys its possessor. Through deep study of human psychology and brilliant characterization, she has created a novel which is memorable. This editon is in 2 volumes. The Second volume isbn is 9781425045562.

Biographie de l'auteur

Fanny Burney (1752 - 1840), known as Madame d'Arblay after marriage, was an English novelist and diarist born in King's Lynn, England. She was self - educated and began writing what she called her 'scribblings' at the age of ten. As a novelist, she set the stage for such comic giants as Jane Austen and Thackeray. Burney focused on issues concerning females and on the hypocrisy of the aristocracy in her works.

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