Evelina Contributor(s): Burney, Fanny (Author) |
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ISBN: 1647993024 ISBN-13: 9781647993023 Publisher: Bibliotech Press OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Romance - General |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 300 pages |
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Publisher Description: Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Frances Burney and first published in 1778. Evelina, the title character, is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat. Her dubious birth has seen her raised in rural seclusion until her seventeenth year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns how 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 later works by Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues. (wikipedia.org) |