| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9781425034795 | | Publisher: WWW.Readhowyouwant.com | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 203833423 | | Item#: REY7XK | | Pages: 280 |
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| | | The novel illustrates the feelings that arise out of desire. It propounds on simple human emotions and comments on how the fire of craving destroys the individual. Burney delves into the theme that ambition destroys its possessor. Through deep study of human psychology and brilliant characterization, she has created a novel which is memorable.
| Author Bio| Fanny Burney | | Frances (Fanny) Burney, the most celebrated female novelist of the 18th century, is also famous for her diaries, which she kept from a very early age. EVELINA, her first published work, was written in secret, over a nine-year period, in stolen moments or long after the rest of her family had gone to bed. When she finally finished EVELINA, in 1778, she had it published anonymously. Fanny Burney's brother, Charles Jr., took it to a bookseller, who published it thinking it was the work of a "Mr. Grafton," who could be reached only at the Orange Coffee House. Anonymity was necessary not only because the 18th century was not receptive to women writers (as Elizabeth Montagu, ""Queen of the Bluestockings", put it: "Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences"), but because her father was the upwardly mobile and intolerant Charles Burney--an eminent literary man as well as the "inventor" of musicology--made his children spend long hours copying his works. "I had hardly time to write half a page in a day," Burney told her diary. Nearly 50 years after she burned her juvenilia (by age 15 she had written elegies, odes, plays, songs, farces, and tragedies), Burney confessed that she had been afraid to write openly lest she disgrace her father. In fact, he was delighted when, six months after the publication of EVELINA, he learned who the author was: by that time the book had become a bestseller. Although she was plagued by illness all her life and underwent radical surgery for cancer when she was nearly 60, she outlived her husband, her only son, and most of her contemporaries. Her diaries were published in 1889. |
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