Arabella grows up in rural seclusion with nothing to read but the long French heroic romances of the previous century, and takes them as a true guide to life. She expects suitors to die for her, sees abductors in every stranger and baffles her patient cousin Glanville, who loves her, and the scheming Sir George, who has read the same books.
A 1752 satire that Samuel Johnson admired and Jane Austen read, complete in both volumes here. Download the free EPUB.