Jane Austen
Jane Austen was an English novelist born on December 16, 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire. She is renowned for her keen observations of early 19th-century English society, particularly the roles of women and the institution of marriage. With a sharp wit and an incisive understanding of human relationships, Austen crafted timeless characters and narratives that resonate with readers even today. Her major works, including "Pride and Prejudice," "Sense and Sensibility," and "Emma," highlight her ability to blend romance with social commentary, creating stories that are both engaging and reflective.
Austen spent much of her life in the English countryside, where she honed her writing skills in the company of family and friends. Despite facing the challenges of her time as a woman writer, her novels have gained immense popularity and critical acclaim, often celebrated for their humor and insight. If you're curious to delve into the world of Jane Austen, we invite you to explore her delightful works in this app. Each story offers a glimpse into the complexities of love, class, and personal growth, making for a rewarding listening experience.
The Watsons
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Jane Austen
This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh…
Pride and Prejudice (version 2)
Read by Annie Coleman Rothenberg
Jane Austen
Jane Austen’s classic novel chronicles the events in the lives of the Bennet family. Take a family with five unmarried daughters and a lack…
Orgullo y prejuicio (cap. 42)
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Jane Austen
Si la opinión de Elizabeth se derivase de lo que veía en su propia familia, no podría haber formado una idea muy agrad…
Orgullo y prejuicio (Vol 1)
Read by Victor Villarraza
Jane Austen
Orgullo y prejuicio (en inglés, Pride and Prejudice), publicada por primera vez el 28 de enero de 1813 como una obra anónima, …
The Letters of Jane Austen
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Jane Austen
This recording includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, edited by Susan Coolidge and chosen from the collection of Austen's great-neph…
Mansfield Park
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Jane Austen
Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie…
Emma (version 5)
Read by Moira Fogarty
Jane Austen
A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised wi…
Emma (version 2)
Read by Sibella Denton
Jane Austen
Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse,…
Persuasion (version 6 dramatic reading)
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Jane Austen
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marri…
Persuasion (version 3)
Read by Moira Fogarty
Jane Austen
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." In persuasion, her …
Pride and Prejudice (version 5)
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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. It is one of the first romantic comedie…
Sense and Sensibility (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Jane Austen
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriag…
Northanger Abbey (version 3 Dramatic Reading)
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Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Ba…
Emma (Version 6)
Read by Maria Therese
Jane Austen
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the c…
Lady Susan (version 2)
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …
Orgullo y Prejuicio (Vol 2)
Read by Victor Villarraza
Jane Austen
Orgullo y prejuicio (en inglés, Pride and Prejudice), publicada por primera vez el 28 de enero de 1813 como una obra anónima, …
Emma (French Version)
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Jane Austen
Emma, "belle, intelligente et riche" a une fâcheuse tendance a vouloir marier les autres. Ce qu'elle va d'abord faire pour s…
Jane Austen's Juvenilia
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Jane Austen
Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…
Pride and Prejudice: A Play
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Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith M…
Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works
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Jane Austen
This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Ca…