Jane Austen

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park (version 2)

Miss Frances, the youngest Ward sister, «married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly. She could...

Karen Savage 14 hours 27 minutes

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Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (version 4)

When Mr Henry Dashwood dies, with his estate entailed to his son and grandson, his wife and three daughters are left in reduced circumstances. In their new home at Barton Cottage, the two older sisters, Elinor and...

Karen Savage 11 hours

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Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice (version 4)

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. Sparks fly when sweet, pretty Jane...

Elizabeth Klett 11 hours 9 minutes

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Jane Austen - Emma (version 3)

Jane Austen famously described Emma Woodhouse, the title character of her 1815 novel, as «a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like.» Yet generations of readers have loved Emma, as much for her blunders as for...

Elizabeth Klett 14 hours 53 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

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Jane Austen - Mansfield Park (dramatic reading)

Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel focusing on Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, who is taken to live with her aunt and uncle Bertram's family on their estate at the age of ten. Surrounded...

15 hours 14 minutes

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Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 5)

Persuasion is a regency Cinderella-esque tale of a young woman, the beautiful Anne Elliot, who is persuaded from marrying the Naval officer of her heart. It is now almost nine years since she rejected him. Bonaparte...

Madame Tusk 7 hours 15 minutes

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Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 4)

Several years before the events of the novel, Anne Elliott fell in love with a young and handsome but poor naval officer. She was persuaded by her friends and family to refuse him when he asked her to marry him. Now...

Karen Savage 7 hours 15 minutes

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Jane Austen - Watsons

This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh printed it in his A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1871. The title is from him....

Gesine 1 hour 48 minutes

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Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility (version 3)

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The sensible Elinor and the sensitive Marianne both fall for men whose...

Elizabeth Klett 10 hours 52 minutes

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Jane Austen - Emma (version 5)

A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised without sufficient discipline or occupation. Handsome, clever and rich, Emma...

Moira Fogarty 16 hours 44 minutes

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Jane Austen - Emma (version 4)

Emma , by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 2 more 15 hours 58 minutes

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Jane Austen - Persuasion (version 3)

«All the privilege I claim for my own sex… is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.» In persuasion, her last novel, Austen explores the theme of postponed but enduring love, delayed by class...

Moira Fogarty 8 hours 28 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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