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Title	:	Evelina
Author	:	Frances Burney
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Oxford World's Classics, New Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 455 pages
Published	:	July 18th 2002 by Oxford University Press (first published 1778)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Romance. Literature. 18th Century. Historical. Historical Fiction

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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.

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Original Title:	Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
ISBN:	0192840312 (ISBN13: 9780192840318)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Evelina Anville, Rev. Villars, Sir Clement Willoughby, Lord Orville, Captain Mirvan, Mrs. Mirvan, Maria Mirvan, Madam Duval, M. Dubois, Mr. Macartney, Mr. Lovel
Setting:	London, England,1778(United Kingdom) Bristol, England,1778 Bath, Somerset, England(United Kingdom) …more Somerset, England(United Kingdom) …less

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I read Evelina for a class examining the British novel. The epistolary nature of this novel makes it an interesting read because everything communicated has already happened. I found the social customs and faux pas' of the era to be somewhat fascinating. The story is both funny and serious, sweet and sour, and happy and sad. It has twists that you would never expect to see. If you enjoy books like Pride and Prejudice, you would extract much enjoyment from Evelina.

3.5★This is the oldest work I have ever read by a female writer.I enjoyed this book at the start & 18th century life (particularly in London) really came alive for me! & I admired Evelina's courage when she was left vulnerable in so many situations. the way through & my enjoyment started to ebb. This is because Evelina was left vulnerable in so many situations! By this time I had realised ( duh!) that I was reading a satire, but a lot of it felt quite repetitive & I was thinking,

It was quite cute, in the end, wasn't it?

I'll admit that reading 18th century fiction is sometimes harder than I'd like it to be. The authors either don't know, or just don't abide by, the rules of fiction that we're all used to. But more and more often I'm struck instead by the sheer joy and verve that animates 18th century novels, and that often seems to have gone missing in the twentieth century--and, obviously, this very much the case with Evelina. There's not a whole lot of unity to the tale, and there are plenty of scenes that

This is an engaging novel, as well as a historically interesting one. I can see why it was a hit at the time. Its uneven, and rather diffuse for modern tastes; and the plot is artificial and implausible. On the plus side, though, it has a real freshness and zest about it; Evelina is an appealingly imperfect heroine; the satire can be sharp; and Burney handles the unforgiving structure of the epistolary novel far more deftly than most. Burney published Evelina anonymously at the age of

Well... This novel left me with feelings of dissatisfaction that threaten to overshadow all the initial enjoyment I got out of it.Primarily, it is that I believe the epistolary format was inadequate for the story, it only allows a mere glimpse into the setting through a very narrow and deficient slit. We're confined to read everything mostly through Evelina's version of events in letters to her guardian, Mr Villars, and given that the heroine is an ingénue bordering on helpless maiden or silly

This is a very good 18th century epistolary novel. The prose is precise and elegant, the voices of the various letter writers are well delineated and individualized, and the author makes us admire the heroine and fret over the difficulties which obstruct her happiness. The two loversthe naive Evelina and the elegant Lord Orvilleexhibit sentiment and good sense even in the midst of misunderstandings in a way that looks forward to Austen, and the misunderstandings themselves are both credible and