Camilla

A Picture of Youth

De: Fanny Burney

Narrado por: Lucy Scott

Among Jane Austen's favorite novels, and a key work in the rise of Romanticism, Camilla follows the story of three young women, from childhood to young adulthood, and their pursuit of matrimony.

Kind but naive Camilla is in love with Edgar Mandlebert, a handsome and noble young man, but must suffer a series of frequent misunderstandings that threaten their happy union. Intelligent Eugenia, destined to inherit her uncle's great wealth, is plagued with misfortune as she is left disfigured by smallpox and has men court her for financial gain only. Meanwhile their cousin, beautiful but selfish Indiana, never finds a fortune for her good looks. Accompanying them is a cast of memorable characters, such as the rowdy prankster Lionel, the dim-witted Mr. Dubster, and the scornful Miss Margland.

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A bit long winded and overdramatic but sometimes insightful

Addiction, pride, miscommunication and false judgement are all still relevant themes. It was an enjoyable listen, and if I had been reading, there were some phrases that deserved highlighting and quoting on social media. But sometimes the painful bits were overdrawn IMO. I like exercising my vocabulary with the classics and this one definitely did that for me!

In Need of a Good Editor

If you like well-read, old-fashioned melodramat, drawn out with shameless padding and sentimentality, prepare to spend a week listening to this set of... was it seven? books. I lost patience with the hapless heroine after a while and with the author after about the fourth book. Her love interest was so full of judgements without inquiry that I could see this story but a version of Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility with Northinger Abbey thrown in for good measure. The heroine was hapless and helpless in an extremely irritating repetition of mishaps that I found my eyes rolling as my mind begged the author to "get on with it!"

Outstanding

This book is a bit of a commitment but it is worth every minute. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Love books by Fanny Burney

This book is a delight to anyone who likes 18 century books. The price is gorgeous And the character easy to like. It does get a little slow towards the end but overall I just love these books. Lucy Scott’s narration is excellent. She gives each character an appropriate voice and she never stumbles over the complex prose. Now I’m waiting for them to finally do a professional narration of “Cecilia”…

Loved it

It was long but I enjoyed it. My only complaint is that Camila spend so much time in remorse and crying and that voice she used for those emotions was a little shrill/whiny and began to get on my nerves. Even with that her performance skills are amazing!!! She is a true actress and probably a girl of 19 in distress would sound shrill and whiny. The story was beautiful and characters vivid.