FANNY BURNEY

Belle, jeune, riche et orpheline, Cecilia quitte la campagne pour sinstaller à Londres. Pour la première fois confrontée au grand monde, elle en découvre toutes les mesquineries et les contradictions

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Published anonymously in 1778, Evelina is an epistolary comedy of manners charting Evelina Anvilles perilous debut in London and Bath. Through letters to her guardian, Mr. Villars, she negotiates the vulgar Branghtons, the bullying Captain Mirvan and flamboyant Madame Duval, the predatory Sir Clement Willoughby, and the exemplary Lord Orville. Burney fuses satiric setpieces at Vauxhall, Ranelagh, and the opera with tender selfscrutiny, using a plot of contested parentage to probe reputation, class aspiration, and the optics of female decorum. Positioned between Richardsons moral epistolarity and Smolletts farce, the novel anticipates Austens social ironies. Frances (Fanny) Burney, daughter of music historian Charles Burney, composed the book amid Londons theatres and salons, drawing on a diarists habit of overhearing talk. Anxious about feminine propriety, she masked authorship, yet mined Richardsons sentiment, Johnsonian conversation, and Smollettian slapstick. Her own fraught path to visibility shapes Evelinas wary, witty education in publicness. Readers of eighteenthcentury fiction, gender history, and the novel of manners will prize Evelina for its vivacity and moral intelligence. It is ideal for students and fans of Austen alike: a brisk, sparkling primer in navigating society without surrendering judgment.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:"Evelina" is the unacknowledged, but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, thus raised in rural seclusion until her 17th year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers of 18th-century society and earn the love of a distinguished nobleman."Cecilia" is the tale about the trials and tribulations of a young upper class woman who must negotiate London society for the first time and who falls in love with a social superior."Camilla" deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people: Camilla Tyrold, her sisters Lavinia and Eugenia, and their cousin, the beautiful Indiana Lynmere. Focal is the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. They have many hardships, however, caused by misunderstandings and mistakes, in the path of true love."The Wanderer" is the historical tale with Gothic overtones set during the 1790s about a mysterious woman who attempts to support herself while hiding her identity. The novel focuses on the difficulties faced by women as they strive for economic and social independence.Frances Burney (1752-1840) was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. She is best known for her novels Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla and The Wanderer. Burneys novels explore the lives of English aristocrats, and satirize their social pretensions and personal foibles, with an eye to larger questions such as the politics of female identity. She has gained critical respect in her own right, but she also foreshadowed such novelists of manners with a satirical bent as Jane Austen and Thackeray.

A work by turns hilarious and grim, Evelina tells the story of a young womans 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 peoplefrom prospective husbands to rakes to vulgar relativesand endures all manner of trials before she achieves her final triumph.Before Evelina, W. D. Howells proclaimed, the heart of girlhood had never been so fully opened in literature. Samuel Johnson called Burney a real wonder and Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote, We owe to [Burney], not only Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla, but also Mansfield Park and The Absentee.

With entries from the diary of Fanny Burney.O Sir, how much uneasiness must I suffer, to counterbalance one short morning of happiness!In this comic and sharply incisive satire of excess and affectations, beautiful young Evelina falls victim to the rakish advances of Sir Clement Willoughby on her entrance to the world of fashionable London. Colliding with the manners and customs of a society she doesnt understand, she finds herself without hope that she should ever deserve the attention of the man she loves. Frances Burneys first novel brilliantly sends up eighteenth-century society - and its opinions of women - while enticingly depicting its delights.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

Inheriting a massive fortune comes with a devastating condition that forces a brilliant heiress into an impossible dilemma. She must navigate a treacherous landscape of greedy guardians, manipulative suitors, and rigid class structures. Torn between duty to her benefactor and the true desires of her heart, she fights to maintain her independence in a society that views her merely as a prize. The psychological toll of her immense wealth becomes a heavy burden as secrets unravel around her. Her battle for autonomy is a masterclass in resilience and sacrifice.

Fleeing the bloody chaos of the French Revolution, a mysterious penniless exile arrives in England with nothing but her survival instincts. Stripped of her name and status, she faces rampant prejudice and the cruel realities of a society hostile to destitute women. Her desperate attempts to earn an honest living are constantly thwarted by predatory men and vindictive employers. Refusing to be broken by systemic oppression, she fiercely guards her tragic secrets while fighting for a sliver of dignity. Her arduous journey is a profound exploration of resilience against insurmountable odds.