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Evelina - Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Paperback, New)
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Evelina - Or the History of A Young Lady's Entrance into the World (Paperback, New)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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'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. ABOUT
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