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Camilla by Madeleine L'Engle
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I haven't read Camilla, but I have read Mandy.

I haven't read Katherine, but I have read Camilla.

... antes 14 The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette 15 Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo 16 Camilla by Fanny Burney 17 The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe 18 Humphrey Clinker by Tobias George Smollett 19 Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood ...

The sexuality of vampirism is tied-in with the Byronic myth - see Polidori - and was heightened by Le Fanu with Camilla, very openly lesbian for it's time. The sexuality of Dracula has more to do with the movies than the novel - in the novel the Count is repulsive: he is less a sexual predator ...

My summer reading list seems to include several potentials. I'm just starting Camilla, by Madeleine L'Engle, who is certainly a very spiritually-conscious writer (although the books is targeted at YA readers, I think.) Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi, and Monique and the Mango ...

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Is the book just called Camilla?

... have read all the books beforehand which Austen parodies in that work. There are much allusives on Fanny Burney's Camilla, Evelina and Cecilia, as much as Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Maria Edgeworth's Belinda and much other works, which are forgotten today. ...

... book because it was mentioned in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. I found it really nice little gem. Fanny Burney: Camilla: I think the story as such very interesting - a very good picture of the society of that time. But it's fairly thick and somethimes a bit peripatetic. The Bronte- ...

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