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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, Margaret Anne Doody
A work by turns hilarious and grim, Evelina tells the story of a young woman’s education in the ways of the world, vividly rendering life in eighteenth-century England. Raised by a pastor after her mother died and her father abandoned her, Evelina leaves the seclusion of the country for her first season out, encounters all manner of people...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780140433470
ISBN-10: 0140433473
Publication Date: 11/1/1994
Pages: 560
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
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.


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