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Title: Belinda by Maria Edgeworth, Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick, Kathryn Kirkpatrick ISBN: 0-19-283709-5 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A joy to read
Comment: I started reading Belinda around 6pm and finally around 2:30am I decided that I had best go to bed and finish the book later. Well, 10 minutes later my light was back on and I stayed up until 6:30am finishing the book. Not even all of Jane Austen's work has done that to me!
The themes of gender and sexual attitudes, colonialism, religion, etc can easily be found in this work if you're interested in it for its scholarly value. However for the lay person it is a beautifully written, light read that is reminiscent of Austen's Mansfield Park or Sense and Sensibility (I certainly don't see many parallels to Pride and Prejudice as one reviewer did). If you're looking to go past Austen into early 19th century English literature, I would certainly recommend this book highly.
Rating: 2
Summary: no Jane Austen...
Comment: I read the book based on reader recommendations that equated 'Belinda' with Jane Austen's work. I had high expectations but struggled to read the book to the end. I found the writing at certain points more like an essay than a novel. Her character development seems forced, and there is little ambient description. Those interested in tracing literary associations of Jane Austen should probably read the book, but if you've read all of Austen's work and are desperately looking for something 'similar' to her style and quality, I would recommend you look elsewhere.
Rating: 5
Summary: A good read!
Comment: Why I never heard about this book until I stumbled upon it online, I will never know! This is as good as any Jane Austen novel, and should have a BBC film of it's own.
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Title: Evelina : or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace, Fanny Burney ISBN: 0375758054 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 04 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Camilla (Oxford World's Classics) by Fanny Burney, Edward A. Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom ISBN: 019283908X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Wanderer; Or, Female Difficulties by Frances Burney, Margaret Anne Doody, Robert L. Mack, Peter Sabor, Fanny Burney ISBN: 0192837583 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress by Frances Burney, Margaret Anne Doody, Peter Sabor ISBN: 0192839098 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Simple Story (Oxford World's Classics) by Elizabeth Inchbald, J.M.S. Tompkins ISBN: 019283598X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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