false <![CDATA[Evelina (Oxford World's Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168976259m/37638.jpg 37638 42 '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. 3055922 book 1778 Evelina total:801|5:160|4:280|3:270|2:78|1:13| 801 2899 1259 83 4 3 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Mar 22 14:50:41 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 14:57:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 09:51:45 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 10:02:06 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jul 30 10:46:56 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 30 10:51:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Jul 04 15:46:47 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 15:49:36 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Fri Jan 04 22:38:13 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 04 22:40:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 31 18:26:54 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 14:12:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Tue Jan 15 09:29:45 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 09:32:59 -0800 2008 4 0 false true Sun Aug 02 02:36:08 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 21:43:38 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 02:36:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 10:03:26 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 11:21:00 -0800 2009
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