Fanny Burney
Evelina : FreedomRead Classic Book
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Sept. 27, 2017)
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 issues.
- Series
- Freedomread Classic Book
- ISBN
- 197764001X / 9781977640017
- Pages
- 234
- Weight
- 24.0 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 0.5
in.