Author of Audiobooks - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (version 4) - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
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 Marianne, experience both romance...
Pride and Prejudice (version 2) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance
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 of wealth, throw in a new wealthy neighbor or two, plus a whole regiment of soldiers in town, and add a...
Persuasion (version 5) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 5) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction
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 has abdicated and England's...
Lady Susan (version 2) - Jane Austen
Lady Susan (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / General Fiction
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as she engages in affairs and...
Northanger Abbey (version 4) - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Literary Fiction
If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reverse is also true? If the man comes of a terrifyingly dysfunctional family and the girl in question likes to...
Emma (version 3) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 3) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
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 her wit and vivacity. Emma,...
Pride and Prejudice: A Play - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice: A Play - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
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 Medbery Macakaye some liberties are taken with the storyline and characters, but it is still a fun listen or...
Emma (version 2) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to...
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Persuasion - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance
Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is growing content with her uneventful lifestyle, a long-lost flame re-enters the picture -- now as the beau of...
Persuasion (version 3) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 3) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
"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 boundaries and excessive pride....
Emma (version 5) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 5) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
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 is the epitome of what a young...
Emma - Jane Austen
Emma - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
Sherry reads Jane Austen’s sparkling comedy of manners with wit and vivacity, and brings the characters to life. Mr. Woodhouse worries and frets, Miss Bates chatters on, and Emma blithely manipulates and misunderstands her friends and family until...
Persuasion (version 6 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 6 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but...
Northanger Abbey (version 2) - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine spends her time visiting newly-made friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and going to balls. Catherine finds...
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance
The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gives her whole heart to every endeavor. When the Dashwoods - mother Mrs. Dashwood, Elinor, Marianne, and...
Persuasion (version 7) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 7) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance
Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to get out of debt, rents their home to an Admiral. The brother of the Admiral's wife, Captain Frederick Wentworth, had been engaged to Anne years earlier and now they meet again....
Mansfield Park (version 2) - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
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 hardly have made a more untoward...
Mansfield Park (dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
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 by her wealthy and privileged...
Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Romance
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of...
The Watsons - Jane Austen
The Watsons - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction
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. Mr Watson is a widowed clergyman...
Sense and Sensibility (version 3) - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (version 3) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
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 affections are otherwise engaged. The...
Pride and Prejudice (version 3) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 3) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a...
Emma (version 7 Dramatic Reading) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 7 Dramatic Reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Emma 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 England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners...
Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works - Jane Austen
Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Castle" both told through the medium of letters written by the characters. It also contains her wonderful "History of England"...
Persuasion (version 2) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance
Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with a poor but ambitious young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots were dissatisfied with Anne's choice, feeling he was not distinguished enough for their family, and her older friend and...
Emma (version 4) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
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 England; she also creates a lively...
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance / Satire
Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie is sent to rich relatives when she’s just old enough to fully appreciate the shame of her circumstances....
Jane Austen's Juvenilia - Jane Austen
Jane Austen's Juvenilia - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various writing styles as a teenager in the early 1790s. This is a collection of her juvenilia, including the...
Sense and Sensibility (version 5 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (version 5 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
The story is about Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and the Dashwood women are...
Persuasion (version 4) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
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 she meets him again......
Lady Susan - Jane Austen
Lady Susan - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as she engages in affairs and...
Sense and Sensibility (version 2) - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriage prospect must make “sense” by bringing with it enough assets and income to permit the couple to continue to...
Emma (Version 6) - Jane Austen
Emma (Version 6) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Literary Fiction
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 England; she also creates a lively...
Pride and Prejudice (version 4) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
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 meets their new neighbor, Mr....
Northanger Abbey (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath. It is Catherine's first visit there. She meets new friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls....
The Letters of Jane Austen - Jane Austen
The Letters of Jane Austen - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Letters
This recording includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, edited by Susan Coolidge and chosen from the collection of Austen's great-nephew, Edward, Lord Brabourne. The letters are mostly addressed to Austen's sister Cassandra, with whom she was...
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Romance
Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a...
Pride and Prejudice (version 5) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 5) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
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 comedies in the history of the novel and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature —"It is a...
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Romance / Satire
Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror — but the superficial world of Bath...
Love and Freindship - Jane Austen
Love and Freindship - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear...