| #67879 in Books | imusti | 2008-12-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.10 x1.00 x7.70l,.79 | File Name: 0199536937 | 512 pages | Oxford University Press, USA
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, theatr...
