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Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)
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|Short Description for Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the WorldFrances Burney's "Evelina", is at once a guide to fashionable late 18th-century London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position, and a love story. This volume includes an introduction and notes for the modern reader.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 18 April 2002
- Format: Paperback 499 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780192840318 ISBN 10: 0192840312
- Sales rank: 244,454
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Full description for Evelina: Or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
'Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!' Frances Burney's first and most enduringly popular novel is a vivid, satirical, and seductive account of the pleasures and dangers of fashionable life in late eighteenth-century London. As she describes her heroine's entry into society, womanhood and, inevitably, love, Burney exposes the vulnerability of female innocence in an image-conscious and often cruel world where social snobbery and sexual aggression are played out in the public arenas of pleasure-gardens, theatre visits, and balls. But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities of manners and social ambitions - as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville. Evelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story. The new introduction and full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily available to a modern reader.
