A Busy Day
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Busy Day
By (Author) Fanny Burney
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oberon Books Ltd
23rd June 2000
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
822.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
112
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 6mm
Description
A Busy Day is a love story. It is also a witty and well-observed satire on class and greed, from the most popular female writer of her time. The scene is London in the summer of 1800. In the course of just one busy day we are thrust into a world of frustrated love, mistaken identity, social snobbery, and downright vulgar bad manners.
Reviews
An uproarious and warm-heatred comedy... an eye-opener and a treat * Independent on Sunday *
A reebuke to those who assume that English theatrical comedy dropped dead in the century between Sheridan and Pinero * Guardian *
Author Bio
Fanny Bureny (1752-1840), brilliant diarist and popular novelist, was an acute witness of the foibles and manners of her time. She was also a playwright whose best work for the stage was unperformed in her day.
