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Title: Cecilia: Or Memoirs of an Heiress (Virago Classics Series) by Fanny Burney ISBN: 0-14-016136-8 Publisher: Penguin Group USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1986 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $7.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: My favorite Burney!
Comment: This is my favorite of Burney's works, because the heroine has a mind of her own, and Burney doesn't insist that we feel sorry for her the entire novel.

Rating: 5
Summary: Great Read
Comment: I read this novel some 6-7 years ago, after I read Evelina and simply loved it. I loved Cecilia even more. It is true that it is a very long novel but it is very much worth your time. It is about an heiress who will inherit a large amount of money on the condition that the man who marries her will take her surname. She is put under the care of three different people, who represent three different characters. One is a miser, the other is a spendthrift and the third one is: well I don't actually remember the third one. But her emotions regarding the man she is in love with but cannot marry because his proud family will never consent to let him drop his surname,the pain they both feel ... Very very good novel. I couldn't keep from crying in the end.

Rating: 5
Summary: Why isn't Fanny Burney famous?
Comment: Why isn't Fanny Burney famous? That's exactly what I began to wonder after a friend convinced me that I should read Evelina. I thought I hated 18th century literature based on the class I took on it in college--if only we had read Fanny Burney then!
She writes with wit and style--it's easy to see why Jane Austen admired her so much! Even though this book is very lengthy, it is not possible to get bored reading it, and although times have changed a lot since Fanny Burney's time, the book still seems alive and relevant to modern readers as many of the unfortunate realities of society that Cecilia struggles with are still with us today in different forms. The characters in this novel are so real you will feel like you know them by the end of the book. Some of the chapters are so funny you will find yourself laughing out loud! I think Fanny Burney deserves to be much more famous. It would be wonderful if someone would make a film of this novel to help spread the word that Fanny Burney's books are great reading!

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