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Hello Ladies! My Evelina LibriVox has no Volumes, only 84 letters. Which letters belong to which Volume?
Philina, I can’t put the actual text as I’m on my phone, but if you scroll down it shows the letters v volumes. Hopefully this helps!https://www.gradesaver.com/evelina-or...
I'm on the PC now so I'll just add it in case anyone else needs it, as I will also.Volume I, Letter I – Volume I, Letter XIV
Volume I, Letter XV – Volume I, Letter XXI
Volume I, Letter XXII – Volume I, Letter XXXI
Volume II, Letter I – Volume II, Letter XI
Volume II, Letter XII –Volume II, Letter XIX
Volume II, Letter XX – Volume II, Letter XXX
Volume III, Letter I – Volume III, Letter V
Volume III, Letter VI – Volume III, Letter XV
Volume III, Letter XVI – Volume III, Letter XXIII
Although that is not helpful I see for LibriBox... because it only shows 1-84.I'm pretty sure with Librivox :
Volume 1 ends at 31
Volume 2 starts with: Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Volume 2 ends at 61
Volume 3 starts with: Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
Volume 3 ends at 84
But I'm not exactly positive. A lot of time when they're reading the narrator will use the book Chapter or Volume as opposed to what's shown in Librivox. At least that will be close. LOL
If anyone that has a book can confirm???? Thanks!
Hi Philina,Each thread in has been updated to
include the Librivox format in message #1.
Hi Brenda,Thank you for helping Philina. 😊
Yes, you are absolutely correct about Librivox.
We appreciate your adding the Volume/Letter
guide.
*If anyone is using Librivox, please uses
Brenda's post as a guide.
Thank you so very much for all your help!
I just joined recently and read this in 2017, so can only make general comments at the end so I don't put in any spoilers. I am not ready to reread it at this point. I did give it 4 stars, though, which is high praise for me since I give 3 stars to books I like, even in some series where I enjoy more than one of them.
Fanny Burney portrait by her cousin Edward Francisco Burney
Fanny Burney, byname of Frances d’Arblay, née Burney,
(born June 13, 1752, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England—
English novelist and letter writer, who was the author
of Evelina, a landmark in the development of the novel
of manners. Her practice of observing and recording
society eventually lead to her first novel.
Evelina; or,
The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World,
novel of manners by Fanny Burney, published anonymously
in 1778, paving the way for Jane Austen novels.
Summery:
Evelina contains many of the same themes and motifs
as Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility:
Sixteen year old Evelina Anville is thrust into the
fashionable and dangerous world of 1770s Georgian
England for the first time, in the hopes being finally
acknowledge her aristocratic father.
Having been raised in the counyryside by her uncle,
a Vicar, the innocent and naive heroine faces society
with lack of understanding of the social norms and
expected of her sex hampers her progression on
the path to becoming a polished young lady.
Miss Burney’s prose reveals her wit and humour, and
her precise sense of voice, telling detail and sensitivity
to the world around her.
The authoress was nervous to have her writing
circulate in public, from Evelina’s dedication to the
often sharp book critics of her day, offered plenty to
cause for this view:
'I am frightened out of my wits from the terror of being
atttacked as an author, and therefore shirk, instead of
seeking, all occasions of being drawn into notice’
(Diary, Berg, September 1778).
She was also anxious to conceal her identity as its
author, even from her father. Keeping her authorship
secret was a challenge, as her hand-writing was
known by London printers (she had served as her
father’s unpaid amanuensis, creating fair copies of
his manuscripts for his books on music).
No stress there.
To her surprise, Evelina took London by storm.
No one guessed it was by shy Fanny Burney, then 26.
Concealed it from her father Dr Charles Burney, perhaps through a sense of guilt ‒ she dedicated the novel to him,
with an ode expressing her ‘filial love’. It was only six months later, when he read the Monthly Review, that he realised she was the writer and his eyes were filled with tears.