Cécilia Ou Mémoires D'une Héritière, Volume 1...

by Frances Burney, Henri Rieu

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Genres: Romance, Fiction, Classics

364 pages, Hardcover

Published February 9, 2019

About the author

Also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay. Frances Burney was a novelist, diarist and playwright. In total, she wrote four novels, eight plays, one biography and twenty volumes of journals and letters.

Reviews

[Laurence · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nog twee delen te gaan, dus rating volgt als het boek volledig uit is. Alvast deze bemerkingen:
- De beschrijving van het gemaskerd bal is een van de vreemdste scènes die ik ooit gelezen heb.
- Wat een gedoe om als vrouw niet gewoon te kunnen zeggen dat je NIET met iemand gaat trouwen - ik ben zo blij met die 21e eeuw.
- Het duurde even om erin te komen, maar nu ben ik helemaal verslingerd aan deze 18e eeuwse soap.

[ꕥ Ange_Lives_To_Read ꕥ · Rating 1 out of 5]

No review/didn't finish - gave this one up even faster than "Evelina." This author is not for me.

[Emmaa22 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Apparently something of an inspiration to Jane Austen, which was enough to make me give it a go. Flowery, romantic and highly moral - harder work than Austen and it ends VERY suddenly at the end of Vol I, which was a bit of a shock. I really got into the flow of it though and was swept along with the drama. It's not for the impatient though, it isn´t a fast-paced plot and the mores and behaviour seem very alien to modern readers, frustratingly so at times!

[Ella]

Well, I now know why I don't like free Kindle classics - they confuse books and in this case, they left off more than half of the book. I have another copy, but I'm finished this much, so I'm putting this one away for the moment, and I'll come back to it with a decent copy soon.

[Alice Yoder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cecilia - rich, naïve country girl, moves to the big city and is taken advantage of by the guardian she comes to live with. She doesn't understand the games these people play with each other.

The other guardians: one a complete self-absorbed snob, the other a tight-fisted miser. Great choices you made there, Dean. Maybe we'll find out why these three gentlemen were picked (or maybe not) in Volume 2.

[Camilla · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was incredible!! It's my second time reading it, and I still really enjoy the struggles that the characters go through, though compared to COVID, they don't seem to have many at all.

[Susan Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

dated but fun, one of Jane Austens favorites