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Description

Frances 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... read more

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OH author of my being!-far more dear

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  1. Fanny Burney (Author)
 

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