| #109163 in Books | imusti | 2008-12-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.10 x1.00 x7.70l,.79 | File type: PDF | 512 pages | Oxford University Press, USA||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Ancient Chic Lit|By Paula Vince|I chose this novel as my Pre-1800 choice in the 2017 Back to the Classics challenge, since it was published way back in 1778. Frances Burney wrote Evelina anonymously at a time when novel writing (and reading) was frowned upon. I was thinking, 'I'll bet this was the sort of novel young girls were warned not to read.' I can guess how parents of th||`Fanny Burney's first novel Evelina was the chick-lit novel of 1778 - all about a young girl's adventures in London, and one of the best of its kind ever written...the Oxford World's Classics edition has a knowledgeable preface by Edward A. Bloom' Derwent May,
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...
You easily download any file type for your device.Evelina (Oxford World's Classics) | Frances Burney. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
