- Paperback: 70 pages
- Publisher: General Books (January 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 021791604X
- ISBN-13: 978-0217916042
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 68 g
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1802. Excerpt: ... *t^he dancing was not yet begun, but the company was met, and the sprightly violins were employed to quicken its motions, when the Cleves party entered the ball room,'where the officers who gave the entertainment assured Lionel, with whom they were acquainted, that he and the young ladies had impatiently been expected. •« I shall recompehce you for waiting/* answered he, in a whisper, " by introducing you to the rich heiress of Cleves, who now makes her first appearance from the nursery; though no! upon farther thoughts, I will only tell you she is one of our set, and leave it to your own ingenuity to find her out.'* While this was passing, Indiana, fluttering with all the secret triumph of conscious beauty, attended by Edgar, and guarded by Miss Margland, walked up the room, through a crowd of admiring spectators; in whom a new figure, without half her loveliness, would have excited the fame curiosity, that her extreme inexperience attributed tributed solely to her peculiar charms. Camilla and Eugenia followed rather as if in her train, and of her party; but Lionel kept entirely with the officers, insisting upon their guessing which was the heiress? to whom, while he purposely misled their conjectures, he urged them to make their court, by enumerating the present possessions of Sir Hugh, and her future expectations. / Camilla, however, passed not lohg unnoticed, though the splendor of Indiana's appearance cast her at first on the back grounds a circumstance which, by impressing her with a sensation of inferiority, divested her mind of all personal considerations, and gave to her air and countenance a graceful simplicity, a disengaged openness, and a guileless freedom from affectation, that rendered her, to the observant eye, ascaptivating upon examination, as Indiana, fr...
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A Hard Core Jane Austen, Jun 16 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Camilla, Or, a Picture of Youth (Paperback)
Although Fanny Burney has somehow managed for a long time to escape the public's eye, I'm pleased to see that she is returning in popularity...or at least her name is known. For any Austen readers out there, Burney is a harder, harsher critic of society, and, in some ways, a wittier one. I do not wish to take anything from Austen, of course, because she is a stunning writer in her own right, and believed to have legitimized the novel. Somehow, though, Burney gets left in the dust, despite Austen's mention of her in several novels, and significantly in _Northanger Abbey_. In other words, I recommend Burney as a great read for those who have the humor to take her and her critical eye of 18th century society.
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GREAT BOOK; HORRIBLE EDITION, July 26 2010
By Sandra Detrixhe - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Camilla; Or, a Picture of Youth, by the Author of Evelina. [With Ms. Note by Jane Austen] Or, a Picture of Youth, by the Author of Evelina. [With Ms. (Paperback)
Jane Austin fans will love this book, too, but don't read this edition. We are asked to "forgive any missing and extraneous characters" but this book is almost impossible (or should I say impoffible) to read. Here is an example: "Her difpofition v;ti,.r/.!iM:t in'finGerity,..." (pg 67). I'm actually struggling through it as an exercise for my brain, but I've ordered a copy from another pubisher. The origianal book was published it several volumes and this is only Vol. 1.
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