
Regency Romance Classics – Fanny Burney Collection (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Illustrated EditionBy Fanny BurneyLength139h 39m
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The Regency Romance Classics – Fanny Burney Collection gathers the courtship plots, social satire, and moral dramas that helped define the English novel before Austen. Through works such as Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer, Burney blends epistolary immediacy, comic dialogue, and acute psychological observation. Her fiction exposes the rituals of polite society, the precarity of female reputation, and the constraints placed upon women seeking love, autonomy, and security in late Georgian Britain. Fanny Burney (1752–1840), also known as Madame d'Arblay, was a pioneering novelist, diarist, and observer of court and literary life. Daughter of the music historian Charles Burney, she moved among artists, aristocrats, and intellectuals, later serving at the court of Queen Charlotte. Her unusual access to drawing rooms, theatres, and royal circles sharpened her eye for manners, hypocrisy, and social performance. This collection is warmly recommended to readers who enjoy Jane Austen, Maria Edgeworth, or the foundations of romantic fiction. Burney offers not merely love stories, but sophisticated studies of class, gender, and feeling. Her novels remain essential for anyone wishing to understand the evolution of the British novel and the cultural world that produced Regency romance.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length139 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 18, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Historical Context
4Synopsis (Selection)
5Regency Romance Classics – Fanny Burney Collection
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6Evelina
7Preface
8Chapter 1. Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars
9Chapter 2. Mr. Villars to Lady Howard
10Chapter 3. Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars
11Chapter 4. Mr. Villars to Lady Howard
12Chapter 5. Mr. Villars to Lady Howard
13Chapter 6. Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars
14Chapter 7. Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars
15Chapter 8. Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
16Chapter 9. Mr. Villars to Evelina
17Chapter 10. Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
18Chapter 11. Evelina in Continuation
19Chapter 12. Evelina in Continuation
20Chapter 13. Evelina in Continuation
21Chapter 14. Evelina in Continuation
22Chapter 15. Mr. Villars to Evelina
23Chapter 16. Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
24Chapter 17. Evelina in Continuation
25Chapter 18. Evelina in Continuation
26Chapter 19. Evelina in Continuation
27Chapter 20. Evelina in Continuation
28Chapter 21. Evelina in Continuation
29Chapter 22. Evelina in Continuation
30Chapter 23. Evelina in Continuation
31Chapter 24. Mr Villars to Evelina
32Chapter 25. Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
33Chapter 26. Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
34Chapter 27. Lady Howard to the Rev. Mr. Villars
35Chapter 28. Mr Villars to Lady Howard
36Chapter 29. Mr. Villars to Evelina
37Chapter 30. Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
38Chapter 31. Lady Howard to Sir John Belmont, Bart
39Chapter 32. Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
40Chapter 33. Evelina in Continuation
41Chapter 34. Evelina in Continuation
42Chapter 35. Sir John Belmont to Lady Howard
43Chapter 36. Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
44Chapter 37. Mr. Villars to Evelina
45Chapter 38. Mr. Villars to Lady Howard
46Chapter 39. Mr. Villars to Evelina
47Chapter 40. Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
48Chapter 41. Evelina to Miss Mirvan
49Chapter 42. Evelina to the Rev. Mr. Villars
50Chapter 43. Evelina in Continuation