{"product_id":"evelinabooks","title":"Evelina","description":"'Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him!  O these fashionable people!'\r\n\r\nFrances 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\r\nvulnerability 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, theatre visits, and balls.  But Evelina's innocence also makes her a shrewd commentator on the excesses and absurdities\r\nof manners and social ambitions - as well as attracting the attention of the eminently eligible Lord Orville.\r\n\r\nEvelina, comic and shrewd, is at once a guide to fashionable London, a satirical attack on the new consumerism, an investigation of women's position in the late eighteenth century, and a love story.  The new introduction and full notes to this edition help make this richness all the more readily\r\navailable to a modern reader.","brand":"Burney, Frances","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Classics)","offer_id":43817842114784,"sku":"","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_1e6a07c2-a454-471f-a1d9-cedcfe7cc0e7.jpg?v=1674588078","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/evelinabooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}