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Evelina
- By: Frances Burney
- Narrated by: Dame Judi Dench, Finty Williams, Geoffrey Palmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 151
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Story4 out of 5 stars 137
Fanny Burney's wickedly funny satire follows the trials and romantic adventures of the young and beautiful Evelina as she tries to make her way through 18th-century Britain handicapped by her three great problems: being poor, being illegitimate - and being a girl. Evelina was a raging best seller when it was first published in 1778 and is widely credited with being the first of the great British domestic novels. Burney was a direct influence on her immediate follower, Jane Austen.
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- By Johanna on 01-10-16
- Evelina
- By: Frances Burney
- Narrated by: Dame Judi Dench, Finty Williams, Geoffrey Palmer
I am astonished
Reviewed: 04-07-16
This was an amazingly complex witty and astonishingly relatable considering the time period. No one could have performed the innocence of Evelina as well as Finty Williams. Not to mention the way she captured the secondary and tertiary characters. I relished in the romantic diction of this book!
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