Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress
Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity and social analysis.About the...
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Cecilia is an heiress, but she can only keep her fortune if her husband will consent to take her surname. Fanny Burney's unusual love story and deft social satire was much admired on its first publication in 1782 for its subtle interweaving of comedy, humanity and social analysis.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780199552382 (019955238X)
ASIN: 019955238X
Publish date: January 15th 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 56
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
18th Century
My first thoughts upon completing Cecilia were centered on the fact of its thematic relevancy for a modern audience. It’s a story that could easily play out today on the screen: A young girl gains an inheritance and is thrust into high society with little to no guidance but her own innocent good hea...
I enjoyed this book more than I anticipated. Cecilia is a young heiress who can only receive her fortune if she marries a man who will take her name. Considering the era this is almost insurmountable unless she marries "beneath" her. The book begins with her still under age and her uncle her guard...
This is (well, was) Jane Austen's favorite novel -- she named "Pride and Prejudice" after a quote from it. Reading it is giving me such a sense of Austen's brilliance. Her writing is realistic fiction compared to this! An entertaining read, but *way* too many characters and too many of them are men ...
Though her parents and the uncle who raised her have died, life should be almost perfect for open-hearted Cecilia. She has inherited enough money to be independent and to live the life that is her ideal, righting wrongs and helping the less privileged. Unfortunately, anything in this long book tha...
10 years ago
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