Evelina by Fanny Burney
Evelina by Fanny Burney. 1925 Macmillan reprint (c/r 1778), 477 pages. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Fanny Burney was a successful English novelist, satirist, and playwright, and a major influence on Jane Austen's work. Evelina is one of her most famous novels, and tells the story of an isolated girl entering society.
Condition: Good+, spine sunned, bookplate on pastedown
"Can anything, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence?"
Evelina by Fanny Burney. 1925 Macmillan reprint (c/r 1778), 477 pages. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Fanny Burney was a successful English novelist, satirist, and playwright, and a major influence on Jane Austen's work. Evelina is one of her most famous novels, and tells the story of an isolated girl entering society.
Condition: Good+, spine sunned, bookplate on pastedown
"Can anything, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence?"