Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked, credited to Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie, 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 Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie. Read in English by Kelly S. Taylor Evelyn is a two-volume novel told in an epistolary style – alternating between letters from the point of view of a trusted, unmarried female friend of the young, naïve heroine of the novel and those of the feckless adventurer who decides that he must seduce the beautiful Evelyn. The author, actress/novelist/playwright Anna Cora Mowatt, was a fan of the works of Fredericka Bremer (early feminist author, sometimes called the “Swedish Jane Austen”). This narrative is heavily influenced by that writer’s style. Like Mowatt’s hit comedy, “Fashion,” the plot centers on the misadventures of nouveau riche family social climbing in New York society of the late 1830’s. Whereas the play was comedy, the novel turns towards tragedy. The author still spices her narrative with strong doses of social satire, however, and gives us many revealing glimpses of everyday life of New Yorkers of the early 19th century. - Summary by Kelly S. Taylor

Recording facts

• Recording title: Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked
• Author credits: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 46
• Listed recording duration: 15:57:31

Catalogue topics

• tragedy
• romance
• melodrama

Opening tracks: first 24 of 46

1. 01 - Vol I Chapter 1 — 31:32
2. 02 - Vol I Chapter 2 — 21:40
3. 03 - Vol I Chapter 3 — 37:04
4. 04 - Vol I Chapter 4 — 17:02
5. 05 - Vol I Chapter 5 — 24:20
6. 06 - Vol I Chapter 6 — 14:07
7. 07 - Vol I Chapter 7 — 12:46
8. 08 - Vol I Chapter 8 — 21:20
9. 09 - Vol I Chapter 9 — 24:21
10. 10 - Vol I Chapter 10 — 54:52
11. 11 - Vol I Chapter 11 — 36:44
12. 12 - Vol I Chapter 12 — 17:15
13. 13 - Vol I Chapter 13 — 14:25
14. 14 - Vol I Chapter 14 — 11:26
15. 15 - Vol I Chapter 15 — 14:55
16. 16 - Vol I Chapter 16 — 20:51
17. 17 - Vol I Chapter 17 — 19:26
18. 18 - Vol I Chapter 18 — 23:50
19. 19 - Vol I Chapter 19 — 27:37
20. 20 - Vol I Chapter 20 — 22:02
21. 21 - Vol1 Chapter 21 — 22:35
22. 22 - Vol II Chapter 1 — 28:30
23. 23 - Vol II Chapter 2 — 10:43
24. 24 - Vol II Chapter 3 — 10:05

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