Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney
"Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2" by Fanny Burney is a novel published in 1782. Young heiress Cecilia Beverley navigates the treacherous waters of eighteenth-century London society, where fortune hunters, misers, and social manipulators surround her. With a peculiar condition attached to her inheritance—any husband must take her surname—she faces romantic entanglements and moral dilemmas. Between masquerade parties and mounting debts, Cecilia encounters mysterious admirers, witnesses near-duels, and discovers
that wealth attracts both genuine affection and dangerous deception in equal measure. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 |
|---|---|
| Title | Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_(Burney_novel) |
| Credits |
Text file produced by Delphine Lettau, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 61.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
| Subject | England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Young women -- Fiction |
| Subject | Love stories |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 7146 |
| Release Date | Dec 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Feb 26, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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