基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：560 页
出版日期：1994年11月
ISBN：0140433473
条形码：9780140433470
版本：New
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
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A work by turns hilarious and grim, Evelina tells the story of a young woman’s 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 people–from prospective husbands to rakes to vulgar relatives–and 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.” --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
作者简介 Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace is an associate professor of English at Boston College and author of Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
媒体推荐 Terry Castle, Stanford University
"... rejoice in Broadview’s impressive new edition of the work, here ably introduced and annotated by Susan Kubica Howard." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Audrey Bilger, Claremont McKenna College
"...will serve both seasoned scholars in the field and readers who may be encountering Evelina for the first time." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
编辑推荐 Terry Castle, Stanford University
"... rejoice in Broadview’s impressive new edition of the work, here ably introduced and annotated by Susan Kubica Howard." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Audrey Bilger, Claremont McKenna College
"...will serve both seasoned scholars in the field and readers who may be encountering Evelina for the first time." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.