Download Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World AudioBook Free
Originally published in 1778, Evelina is Frances Burney's first and most beloved novel. It was a landmark in the development of the book of manners and continued to influence such enduringly popular authors as Jane Austen. By turns amusing and grim, witty and lyrical, the storyplot comes after young Evelina as she leaves the seclusion of her country home and enters into late eighteenth-century London modern culture - both its pleasures and its potential issues. Life in eighteenth-century England is vividly rendered as Evelina is educated in the ways of the globe and, eventually, love. As she fights such cruelties as cultural snobbery and delights in such thrills as pleasure landscapes and balls, Evelina strives toward her last triumph, while capturing the hearts of listeners all over the place along the way.
