Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
โ Scribed by Fanny Burney
- Publisher
- Project Gutenberg
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 255 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
Raised in seclusion until her seventeenth birthday, Evelina is exposed to London society for the first time while in the company of the fashionable Lady Howard. Evelina's lack of aristocratic upbringing quickly becomes apparent, but undaunted by her lack of awareness of the customs and conventions o
Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marri
Pressured by her unscrupulous family to marry a wealthy man she detests, the young Clarissa Harlowe is tricked into fleeing with the witty and debonair Robert Lovelace and places herself under his protection. Lovelace, however, proves himself to be an untrustworthy rake whose vague promises of marri
*One of the first great British novels, Samuel Richardson's classic tale became a legend to his own age and remains so today.* Defying her parents' desire for her to marry a loathsome man for his wealth, the virtuous Clarissa escapes into the dangerous arms of the charming rogue Lovelace, who