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Belinda (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Belinda (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Loot Price R341
Discovery Miles 3 410
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'It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most
dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so
completely.' Maria Edgeworth's 1801 novel, Belinda, is an
absorbing, sometimes provocative, tale of social and domestic life
among the English aristocracy and gentry. The heroine of the title,
only too conscious of being 'advertised' on the marriage market,
grows in moral maturity as she seeks to balance self-fulfilment
with achieving material success. Among those whom she encounters
are the socialite Lady Delacour, whose brilliance and wit hide a
tragic secret, the radical feminist Harriot Freke, the handsome and
wealthy Creole gentleman Mr Vincent, and the mercurial Clarence
Hervey, whose misguided idealism has led him into a series of
near-catastrophic mistakes. In telling their story Maria Edgeworth
gives a vivid picture of life in late eighteenth-century London,
skilfully showing both the attractions of leisured society and its
darker side, and blending drawing-room comedy with challenging
themes involving serious illness, obsession, slavery and
interracial marriage.
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