| Title | : | Evelina (Unabridged) |
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| Author | : | Frances Burney |
| Release | : | 2015-11-13 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Classics |
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| 1 | Evelina (Unabridged) | Frances Burney |
| Fanny Burney's wickedly funny satire follows the trials and romantic adventures of the young and beautiful Evelina as she tries to make her way through 18th-century Britain handicapped by her three great problems: being poor, being illegitimate - and being a girl. Evelina was a raging best seller when it was first published in 1778 and is widely credited with being the first of the great British domestic novels. Burney was a direct influence on her immediate follower, Jane Austen, who used some of the final lines from Burney’s novel Cecilia for one of her own fairly successful novels: "...if to pride and prejudice you owe your miseries...to pride and prejudice you will also owe their termination". |
