Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress, credited to Fanny Burney, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Cecilia by Fanny Burney. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find a husband who will accept her name. This proves impossible, and she gives up her fortune to marry for love. Jane Austen referred to Cecilia and other novels in her novel, Northanger Abbey: “'And what are you reading, Miss — ?' 'Oh! It is only a novel!' replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. 'It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda'; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best–chosen language. The title of Austen's Pride and Prejudice may have been inspired by a passage at the end of Cecilia: “remember: if to pride and prejudice you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good and evil balanced, that to pride and prejudice you will also owe their termination.” (Summary adapted from Wikipedia by Karen Merline) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress
• Author credits: Fanny Burney
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 107
• Listed recording duration: 35:49:39

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• English literature
• romance
• historical fiction
• Frances Burney

Opening tracks: first 24 of 107

1. 001 - Vol. I Chapter 01: A Journey — 13:19
2. 002 - Vol. I Chapter 02: An Argument — 24:06
3. 003 - Vol. I Chapter 03: An Arrival — 17:57
4. 004 - Vol. I Chapter 04: A Sketch of High Life — 19:23
5. 005 - Vol. I Chapter 05: An Assembly — 25:40
6. 006 - Vol. I Chapter 06: A Breakfast — 14:10
7. 007 - Vol. I Chapter 07: A Project — 18:44
8. 008 - Vol. I Chapter 08: An Opera Rehearsal — 21:02
9. 009 - Vol. I Chapter 09: A Supplication — 18:00
10. 010 - Vol. I Chapter 10: A Provocation — 10:34
11. 011 - Vol. I Chapter 11: A Narration — 14:03
12. 012 - Vol. II Chapter 01: A Man of Wealth — 10:48
13. 013 - Vol. II Chaper 02: A Man of Family — 13:11
14. 014 - Vol. II Chapter 03, Pt. 1: A Masquerade — 25:39
15. 015 - Vol. II Chapter 03, Pt. 2: A Masquerade — 26:05
16. 016 - Vol. II Chaper 04: An Affray — 28:05
17. 017 - Vol. II Chapter 05: A Fashionable Friend — 17:07
18. 018 - Vol. II Chapter 06: A Family Party — 19:15
19. 019 - Vol. II Chapter 07: An Examination — 21:06
20. 020 - Vol. II Chapter 08: A Tete-a-Tete — 11:20
21. 021 - Vol. III Chapter 01: An Application — 18:45
22. 022 - Vol. III Chapter 02: A Perplexity — 12:00
23. 023 - Vol. III Chapter 03: An Admonition — 21:45
24. 024 - Vol. III Chapter 04: An Evasion — 13:46

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