Evelina by Frances Burney is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Oh, Author of my being!—far more dear To me than light, than nourishment, or rest, Hygeia's blessings, Rapture's burning tear, Or the lifeblood that mantles in my breast! If in my heart the love of Virtue glows, 'Twas planted there by an unerring rule; From thy example the pure flame arose, Thy life This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.
