Camilla

Description

"First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people - Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere - and, in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. The path of true love, however, is strewn with intrigue, contretemps and misunderstanding." "An enormously popular eighteenth-century novel, Camilla is touched at many points by the advancing spirit of romanticism. As in Evelina, Fanny Burney weaves into her novel strands of light and dark, comic episodes and gothic shudders, and creates a pattern of social and moral dilemmas which emphasize and illuminate the gap between generations."--Jacket.

First Sentence

REPOSE is not more welcome to the worn and to the aged, to the sick and to the unhappy, than danger, difficulty, and toil to the young and adventurous.

Subjects

Series Statement

• Oxford World's Classics

Other Editions

• CamillaOxford University Press, USA1999-08-27
• CamillaMicroformprinted by William Porter, for G. Burnet, R. Cross, P. Wogan, P. Byrne [and 26 others in Dublin]1796-01-01
• Camillaprinted for the booksellers1796-01-01
• Camillaprinted for T. Payne, T. Cadell, and W. Davies1802-01-01
• CamillaWilliam Jackson1833-01-01
• CamillaJoseph Thomas; and Edward Lacey1840-01-01