Emma: A Fragment of a Story

About this film

LibriVox recording of Emma: A Fragment of a Story by Charlotte Brontë. Read in English by Oxenhandler; Beth Thomas Miss Mabel Wilcox, the owner of a newly opened girl's boarding school, meets the wealthy Mr. Conway Fitzgibbon, who drops off his frail daughter to be educated there. When background checks are made, it is discovered that no well-to-do family by the name of Fitzgibbon exists! Supposed Matilda Fitzgibbon is a pseudo-heiress - a fake! What is Miss Wilcox to do? Published posthumously and prefaced by Charlotte Brontë's editor, W. M. Thackeray, these two chapters are the only existing fragments of Emma, the novel Brontë worked on until her untimely death. Since then, it has been "completed" twice by other authors - Summary by Mary Kay For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (19MB)

Directors & creators

Charlotte Brontë

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;Mystery; money; girls; boarding school; wealth; forgery; fragment; gothic fiction; daughters; fakery; two chapters; posthumous works; indentity; heiress

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