Evelina

By Burney, Fanny

Book Id: WPLBN0002950344
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File Size: 457.53 MB
Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Evelina
Author:	Burney, Fanny
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Epistolary fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Evelina
Historic Publication Date:	1778
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Burney, B. F. (1778). Evelina. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
In this epistolary novel, we find a young woman named Evelina, who was raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year because of her uncertain parentage. Through a series of harrowing and humorous events that take place in London and an English resort town, Evelina learns how to navigate the complex layers of 18th century society and earn the love of a distinguished and honorable nobleman. This comedy of manners often satirizes the society in which it is set; Evelina is a significant precursor to later works by Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues. (from Evelina’s wikipedia entry, modified by ettelocin)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Epistolary fiction