Emma: A Fragment of a Story: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Emma: A Fragment of a Story by Charlotte Brontë: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 3 original MP3 tracks, 43:20 running time and a link to listen.
Emma: A Fragment of a Story, credited to Charlotte Brontë, 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 Emma: A Fragment of a Story by Charlotte Brontë. Read in English by Oxenhandler; Beth Thomas Miss Mabel Wilcox, the owner of a newly opened girl's boarding school, meets the wealthy Mr. Conway Fitzgibbon, who drops off his frail daughter to be educated there. When background checks are made, it is discovered that no well-to-do family by the name of Fitzgibbon exists! Supposed Matilda Fitzgibbon is a pseudo-heiress - a fake! What is Miss Wilcox to do? Published posthumously and prefaced by Charlotte Brontë's editor, W. M. Thackeray, these two chapters are the only existing fragments of Emma, the novel Brontë worked on until her untimely death. Since then, it has been "completed" twice by other authors - Summary by Mary Kay
Recording facts
- Recording title: Emma: A Fragment of a Story
- Author credits: Charlotte Brontë
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 3
- Listed recording duration: 43:20
Catalogue topics
- Mystery
- money
- girls
- boarding school
- wealth
- forgery
- fragment
- gothic fiction
Track guide
- 00 - Preface: The Last Sketch — 10:16
- 01 - Chapter I — 11:31
- 02 - Chapter II — 21:33
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