Evelina - Couverture souple

Burney, Fanny

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0451525604 ISBN 13 : 9780451525604

Editeur : Dutton / Signet, 1992

Synopsis

Book by Burney Frances

A propos du livre

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

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Dutton / Signet
• Date d'édition: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0451525604
• ISBN 13: 9780451525604
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 10