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Evelina Or The History Of A Young Lady's Entrance Into The World
Evelina Or The History Of A Young Lady's Entrance Into The World
Author: Frances Burney
In this novel, Evelina, the title character, is the unacknowledged daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat. Her dubious birth has seen her raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Bristol-Hotwells, Evelina learns how to navigate the complex layer...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781440422638
ISBN-10: 144042263X
Publication Date: 9/16/2008
Pages: 256
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Publisher: CreateSpace
Book Type: Paperback
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Written in epistolary form, Evelina is the sequal to the novel that the author burned when she was 15. An introduction of a young naive woman to society, and the masks and dangers that lay in wait.
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The novel records in letters its young heroine's encounters with society, both high and low, in London and at fashionable watering places.