Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress by Frances Burney, Margaret Anne Doody, Peter Sabor ISBN: 0-19-283909-8 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Read
Comment: I read this novel some 6-7 years ago, after I read Evelina and simply loved it. I loved Cecilia even more. It is true that it is a very long novel but it is very much worth your time. It is about an heiress who will inherit a large amount of money on the condition that the man who marries her will take her surname. She is put under the care of three different people, who represent three different characters. One is a miser, the other is a spendthrift and the third one is: well I don't actually remember the third one. But her emotions regarding the man she is in love with but cannot marry because his proud family will never consent to let him drop his surname,the pain they both feel ... Very very good novel. I couldn't keep from crying in the end.
Rating: 5
Summary: Why isn't Fanny Burney famous?
Comment: Why isn't Fanny Burney famous? That's exactly what I began to wonder after a friend convinced me that I should read Evelina. I thought I hated 18th century literature based on the class I took on it in college--if only we had read Fanny Burney then!
She writes with wit and style--it's easy to see why Jane Austen admired her so much! Even though this book is very lengthy, it is not possible to get bored reading it, and although times have changed a lot since Fanny Burney's time, the book still seems alive and relevant to modern readers as many of the unfortunate realities of society that Cecilia struggles with are still with us today in different forms. The characters in this novel are so real you will feel like you know them by the end of the book. Some of the chapters are so funny you will find yourself laughing out loud! I think Fanny Burney deserves to be much more famous. It would be wonderful if someone would make a film of this novel to help spread the word that Fanny Burney's books are great reading!
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book!
Comment: This was truely an enjoyable reading experience. Surprisingly for a book of this time period, it got off right away to a super start and just got better as the pages turned. Burney's ability with the English language was well beyond imressive, it was stunning. She quickly developed an inspired set of characters interacting with one another in delightful scenes. The masquerade ball was hilarious. I heartily recommend this outstanding piece of literature.
 |
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 |
 |
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 |
 |
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 |
 |
Title: Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics) by Elisabeth Jay, Margaret Wilson Oliphant ISBN: 0140436308 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
 |
Title: Belinda by Maria Edgeworth, Kathryn J. Kirkpatrick, Kathryn Kirkpatrick ISBN: 0192837095 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
