Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the sheltered young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. As she makes forays into fashionable society in Bath and London, many scrapes and mortifications ensue - all men seem like predators wishing to ravish her, she mistakes a cross-dressing prostitute for a distressed gentlewoman, and she risks her life by throwing herself into the Thames to avoid a potential seducer. Can Arabella be cured of her romantic delusions? An immediate success when it first appeared in 1752, The Female Quixote is a wonderfully high-spirited parody of the style of Cervantes, and a telling and comic depiction of eighteenth-century English society.

SKU	898018
Autor	LENNOX, CHARLOTTE
Editora	PENGUIN CLASSICS
ISBN	9780140439878
EAN	9780140439878
Categoria	Ficção
Assunto	Literatura Estrangeira
Páginas	528
Número da Edição
Ano da Edição	2006
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