Camilla; or, A Picture of Youth is Fanny Burney's novel of manners about a young woman's growth, love, and family and social pressures in eighteenth-century England. It is worth listening to for its witty observation of conduct and feeling and its lively portrait of youth.
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Opening of the book
FANNY BURNEY Camilla OR A Picture of Youth CONTENTS CAMILLA, OR A PICTURE OF YOUTH DEDICATION 3 ADVERTISEMENT 5 VOLUME I BOOK I I. A Family Scene 7 II. Comic Gambols 14 III. Consequences 26
IV. Studies of a grown Gentleman 33 V. Schooling of a young Gentleman 41 VI. Tuition of a young Lady 44 VII. Lost Labour 49 BOOK II I. New Projects 53 II. New Characters 60 III. A Family Breakfast 78 IV. A Public Breakfast 82 V. A Raffle 96 VI. A Barn 109 VII. A Declaration 112 VIII. An answer 117 IX. An Explication 123 X. A Panic 125 XI. Two Lovers 133 XII. Two Doctors 139 XIII. Two Ways of looking at the same Thing 147 XIV. Two Retreats 152 XV. Two Sides of a Question 157 VOLUME II BOOK III I. A few kind Offices 163 II. A Pro and a Con 173 III. An Author's Notion of Travelling 180 IV. An internal Detection 189
V. An Author's Opinion of Visiting 197 VI. An Author's Idea of Order 206 VII. A Maternal Eye 215 VIII. Modern Ideas of Duty 222 IX. A Few Embarrassments 230 X. Modern Ideas of Life 238 XI. Modern Notions of Penitence 244 XII. Airs and Graces 249 XIII. Attic Adventures 257 BOOK IV I. A few Explanations 266 II. Specimens of Taste 274 III. A few Compliments 283 IV. The Danger of Disguise 291 V. Strictures on Deformity 299 VI. Strictures on Beauty 305 VII. The Pleadings of Pity 311 VIII. The disastrous Buskins 317 IX. Three Golden Maxims 324 VOLUME III BOOK V I. A Pursuer 333 II. An Adviser 338 III. Various Confabulations 343 IV. A Dodging 351 V. A Sermon 355
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