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Like the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen wrote extensive juvenilia that was published and embraced by the general public after the author attained literary fame. Austen wrote Love and Freindship when she was only 14 years old, hence the typo in the title. The epistolary novel betrays the wit and precociousness of the young Austen, who sought to amuse her family by parodying the conventions of the romantic novels that helped comprise her childhood library. Joanna Daniell brings a high-class, archly enunciated diction to her performance that complements the entertaining, over-the-top material that surely had the entire Austen clan rolling on the floor in laughter.
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Jane Austen wrote Love and Friendship (originally spelled Love and Freindship [sic]) when she was just 14 years old. The three notebooks that contain her early works, including this story, are currently on display at the Bodleian Library and the British Museum. Taking the form as letters written by the heroine to the daughter of her friend, this story resembles a fairy tale that lampoons the conventions of romantic stories at the time.
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Great story! Great reading. Editor - not so much
- De David en 11-03-17
De: G. A. Henty
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Agnes Grey
- De: Anne Brontë
- Narrado por: Emilia Fox
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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Having lost the family savings on risky investments, Richard Grey removes himself from family life and suffers a bout of depression. Feeling helpless and frustrated, his youngest daughter, Agnes, applies for a job as a governess to the children of a wealthy, upper-class, English family. Ecstatic at the thought that she has finally gained control and freedom over her own life, Agnes arrives at the Bloomfield mansion armed with confidence and purpose.
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Loved it
- De Kerry en 05-22-10
De: Anne Brontë
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- De: Anne Brontë
- Narrado por: Mary Sarah Agliotta
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, this novel had an instant and phenomenal success and is widely considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. A mysterious widow, Mrs. Helen Graham, arrives at Wildfell Hall, a nearby old mansion. A source of curiosity for the small community, the reticent Helen and her young son Arthur are slowly drawn into the social circles of the village.
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A good story ruined by the narrator
- De i. Ski en 04-17-14
De: Anne Brontë
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Agnes Grey
- De: Anne Bronte
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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Written when women---and workers generally---had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-19th-century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess.
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Make.it.stop.
- De Wayne en 03-18-22
De: Anne Bronte
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The Belton Estate
- De: Anthony Trollope
- Narrado por: Flo Gibson
- Duración: 14 h y 14 m
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Charming, loving Clara Amedroz is involved with two suitors. How she deals with this dilemma is full of humor and very moving.
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Claire's Two Lovers
- De Joseph R en 08-27-09
De: Anthony Trollope
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!
- De: Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Katherine Kellgren
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.
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One word - Awesome!
- De Katelyn en 05-22-09
De: Seth Grahame-Smith, y otros
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He Knew He Was Right
- De: Anthony Trollope
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 30 h y 32 m
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When Louis Trevelyan's young wife meets an old family acquaintance, his unreasonable jealousy of their friendship sparks a quarrel that leads to a brutal and tragic estrangement.
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Nigel Patterson as the narrator is great
- De NH en 10-31-16
De: Anthony Trollope
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Swann's Way
- De: Marcel Proust, Scott Moncrieff - translator
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 21 h y 27 m
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Swann’s Way is the first and best-known part of Proust’s monumental work, Remembrance of Things Past. Often compared to a symphony, this complex masterpiece is ideally suited for audio. Listening lets you appreciate anew the incredible beauty of Proust’s language and the uniqueness of his style. The novel’s narrator, Marcel, finds the true meaning of experience in memories stimulated by some random object or event.
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Beautiful, BUT
- De Michael en 02-04-13
De: Marcel Proust, y otros
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Vicar of Wakefield
- De: Oliver Goldsmith
- Narrado por: Patrick Tull
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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The simple village vicar, Mr. Primrose, is living with his wife and six children in complete tranquility until unexpected calamities force them to weather one hilarious adventure after another. Goldsmith plays out this classic comedy of manners with a light, ironic touch that is irresistibly charming.
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Snidely Whiplash Ravishes Hapless Maidens
- De Joseph R en 12-26-09
De: Oliver Goldsmith
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Wives and Daughters
- De: Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 25 h y 39 m
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Set in English society before the 1832 Reform Bill, Wives and Daughters centers on the story of youthful Molly Gibson, brought up from childhood by her father. When he remarries, a new stepsister enters Molly's quiet life, the loveable, but worldly and troubling, Cynthia. The narrative traces the development of the two girls into womanhood within the gossiping and watchful society of Hollingford.
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It's not about the ending!
- De Sandra en 07-25-05
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The Portrait of a Lady
- De: Henry James
- Narrado por: John Wood
- Duración: 23 h y 55 m
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When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors, declaring that she will never marry. It is only when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the cultivated but worthless Gilbert Osmond that she discovers that wealth is a two-edged sword.
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Highly recommended
- De David en 06-26-10
De: Henry James
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The Confessions
- De: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 30 h
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Dr. Johnson may have been correct in saying that “Rousseau was a very bad man,” but none can argue that his ideas are among the most influential in all of world history. It was Rousseau, the father of the romantic movement, who was responsible for introducing at least two modern day thoughts that pervade academia. The Confessions is Rousseau’s landmark autobiography. Both brilliant and flawed, it is nonetheless beautifully written and remains one of the most moving human documents in all of literature.
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Extraordinary in its ordinariness...
- De Varni-Maree en 08-28-12
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Lady Susan
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Laurelle Westaway, David Thorn, Susan McCarthy
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
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After Jane Austen's earliest known writings, she began a more serious work, Lady Susan, in 1793 or 1794. It is a short, epistolary novel that portrays a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the point of social self-destruction.
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Three cheers for multi voice readers
- De Kerlian en 04-06-05
De: Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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Jane Austen's first major novel, a parody of the popular literature of the time, is an ironic tale of the romantic folly of men and women in pursuit of love, marriage, and money. The humorous adventures of young Catherine as she encounters "the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks' residence in Bath" lead to some of Austen's most brilliant social satire.
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Austen Stretching Her Wings
- De Joseph R en 03-05-09
De: Jane Austen
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Emma
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Jane Austen, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrado por: Emma Thompson, Joanne Froggatt, Isabella Inchbald, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Austen wrote, 'I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like' and thus introduces the handsome, clever, rich - and flawed, Emma Woodhouse. Emma is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage; nothing however delights her more than matchmaking her fellow residents of Highbury. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
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Background sonds RUINED this
- De Sandra Dodd en 09-09-18
De: Jane Austen, y otros
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The Life and Works of Jane Austen
- De: Devoney Looser, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Devoney Looser
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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Born to the ranks of the lower English gentry in 1775, Jane Austen led what some have mistakenly described as an ordinary and unremarkable life - a life that ended all too soon at the age of 41. But from this life, Austen drew inspiration for six novels that all rank as literary masterpieces, including the widely beloved Pride and Prejudice. So, what do we really know about Austen’s life and influences?
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A great class!
- De Miamigrrl en 04-14-21
De: Devoney Looser, y otros
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Evelina
- Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
- De: Frances Burney
- Narrado por: Orson Scott Card, Emily Rankin, Stefan Rudnicki, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
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Originally published in 1778, Evelina is Frances Burney's first and most beloved novel. It was a landmark in the development of the novel of manners and went on to influence such enduringly popular authors as Jane Austen. By turns hilarious and grim, witty and lyrical, the story follows young Evelina as she leaves the seclusion of her country home and enters into late eighteenth-century London society - both its pleasures and its dangers. Life in eighteenth-century England is vividly rendered as Evelina is educated in the ways of the world and, eventually, love.
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Great classic
- De J. Wachter en 05-08-15
De: Frances Burney
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A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England
- De: Sue Wilkes
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Jane Austen's contemporaries. Packed with detail and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen's birth, to the coronation of George IV in 1820. Sue Wilkes skillfully conjures up all aspects of daily life within the period, drawing on contemporary diaries, illustrations, letters, novels, travel literature, and archives.
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Witty and Wonderful
- De Bodoh en 11-18-23
De: Sue Wilkes
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Lady Susan
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Laurelle Westaway, David Thorn, Susan McCarthy
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
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After Jane Austen's earliest known writings, she began a more serious work, Lady Susan, in 1793 or 1794. It is a short, epistolary novel that portrays a woman bent on the exercise of her own powerful mind and personality to the point of social self-destruction.
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Three cheers for multi voice readers
- De Kerlian en 04-06-05
De: Jane Austen
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Northanger Abbey
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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Jane Austen's first major novel, a parody of the popular literature of the time, is an ironic tale of the romantic folly of men and women in pursuit of love, marriage, and money. The humorous adventures of young Catherine as she encounters "the difficulties and dangers of a six weeks' residence in Bath" lead to some of Austen's most brilliant social satire.
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Austen Stretching Her Wings
- De Joseph R en 03-05-09
De: Jane Austen
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Emma
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Jane Austen, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrado por: Emma Thompson, Joanne Froggatt, Isabella Inchbald, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Austen wrote, 'I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like' and thus introduces the handsome, clever, rich - and flawed, Emma Woodhouse. Emma is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage; nothing however delights her more than matchmaking her fellow residents of Highbury. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
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Background sonds RUINED this
- De Sandra Dodd en 09-09-18
De: Jane Austen, y otros
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The Life and Works of Jane Austen
- De: Devoney Looser, The Great Courses
- Narrado por: Devoney Looser
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
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Born to the ranks of the lower English gentry in 1775, Jane Austen led what some have mistakenly described as an ordinary and unremarkable life - a life that ended all too soon at the age of 41. But from this life, Austen drew inspiration for six novels that all rank as literary masterpieces, including the widely beloved Pride and Prejudice. So, what do we really know about Austen’s life and influences?
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A great class!
- De Miamigrrl en 04-14-21
De: Devoney Looser, y otros
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Evelina
- Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
- De: Frances Burney
- Narrado por: Orson Scott Card, Emily Rankin, Stefan Rudnicki, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
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Originally published in 1778, Evelina is Frances Burney's first and most beloved novel. It was a landmark in the development of the novel of manners and went on to influence such enduringly popular authors as Jane Austen. By turns hilarious and grim, witty and lyrical, the story follows young Evelina as she leaves the seclusion of her country home and enters into late eighteenth-century London society - both its pleasures and its dangers. Life in eighteenth-century England is vividly rendered as Evelina is educated in the ways of the world and, eventually, love.
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Great classic
- De J. Wachter en 05-08-15
De: Frances Burney
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A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England
- De: Sue Wilkes
- Narrado por: Christine Rendel
- Duración: 7 h y 42 m
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Immerse yourself in the vanished world inhabited by Jane Austen's contemporaries. Packed with detail and anecdotes, this is an intimate exploration of how the middle and upper classes lived from 1775, the year of Austen's birth, to the coronation of George IV in 1820. Sue Wilkes skillfully conjures up all aspects of daily life within the period, drawing on contemporary diaries, illustrations, letters, novels, travel literature, and archives.
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Witty and Wonderful
- De Bodoh en 11-18-23
De: Sue Wilkes
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Emma
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Catherine Bilson, Terah Tucker, Graham Scott, y otros
- Duración: 16 h y 41 m
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Emma is a vivacious twenty-year-old, who has spent her life in the pleasant seclusion of a village community and who lives with her widowed valetudinarian father. Most of the neighbors admire and approve of her, except for George Knightley, a local landowner, who often expresses his disapproval of Emma’s highhanded and controlling tendencies, in particular her assumption of the unofficial role of matchmaker.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- De: Anne Brontë
- Narrado por: Alex Jennings, Jenny Agutter
- Duración: 16 h y 25 m
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Fleeing a disastrous marriage, Helen Huntingdon retreats to the desolate mansion, Wildfell Hall, with her son, Arthur. There, she makes her living as a painter. Finding it difficult to avoid her neighbors, she is soon an object of speculation and gossip. Brontë portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when society defined a married woman as her husband's property.
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Excellent performances of an abridged version
- De LSK en 04-21-19
De: Anne Brontë
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Love and Friendship & Other Early Works
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Geoffrey Giuliano, The Spire
- Duración: 4 h y 34 m
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"Love and Friendship" is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, written in 1790, when Austen was just 14 years old. The story is told through a series of letters between the characters, primarily the protagonist, Laura, and her close friend, Isabel. The novel is a satirical take on the romantic fiction of the time, with Laura's escapades and misadventures serving as a critique of the societal norms of the day. The story follows Laura's attempts to navigate the social scene and find a suitable husband, which leads to a series of humorous and ridiculous situations.
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A Secret Sisterhood
- The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf
- De: Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Sastre
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world's best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their discovery of a wealth of surprising collaborations.
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Refreshing Insights
- De Friend in NYC en 05-03-24
De: Emily Midorikawa, y otros
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Jane Eyre
- De: Charlotte Brontë
- Narrado por: Thandiwe Newton
- Duración: 19 h y 10 m
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Following Jane from her childhood as an orphan in Northern England through her experience as a governess at Thornfield Hall, Charlotte Brontë's Gothic classic is an early exploration of women's independence in the mid-19th century and the pervasive societal challenges women had to endure. At Thornfield, Jane meets the complex and mysterious Mr. Rochester, with whom she shares a complicated relationship that ultimately forces her to reconcile the conflicting passions of romantic love and religious piety.
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Perfect!!
- De Amazon Customer en 04-21-16
De: Charlotte Brontë
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Robinson Crusoe
- De: Daniel Defoe
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in 1719, and it has inspired countless imitations.
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Great story but with moments that made me cringe
- De Tad Davis en 10-25-12
De: Daniel Defoe
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Persuasion
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Nadia May
- Duración: 8 h y 1 m
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The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died at 41, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author's own lost love. Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall has three daughters: Elizabeth, who shares his haughty vanity and, at 28 has found no one good enough to marry; Mary, who has, with some condescension, married the son of the local squire; and admirable Anne, who "was nobody with either father or sister".
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Wonderful characters
- De Tad Davis en 05-19-08
De: Jane Austen
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Persuasion
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Greta Scacchi
- Duración: 8 h y 13 m
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Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a tale of love and marriage told with irony and insight. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth have met and seperated years before. Their reunion, after the passage or irrecoverable years of their youth, forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart.
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Perfect
- De Jennifer en 06-18-10
De: Jane Austen
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Mrs. Wickham
- De: Sarah Page
- Narrado por: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, full cast
- Duración: 2 h y 3 m
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Imagine if you made one little mistake when you were young and were punished for it for the rest of your life. Well, that’s what happened to Lydia (yes, that Lydia, the youngest Bennet sister from Pride and Prejudice), and she’s here to set the record straight. Hold on to your teacups and get ready for sophisticated (and a little bit naughty) hot takes and witty banter that’ll make you laugh—and think. We meet Lydia just as she is denounced by her family, exiled miles from home, and married to the rogue George Wickham, who seems to love all women...except his own wife.
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Was I supposed to feel sorry?
- De LuJuna Brown-Jackson en 09-10-22
De: Sarah Page
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Wuthering Heights
- An Audible Exclusive Performance
- De: Emily Brontë, Ann Dinsdale - introduction
- Narrado por: Joanne Froggatt, Rachel Atkins - introduction
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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The unapologetic intensity with which Emily Brontë wrote this story ensures that it will forever be considered one of the greatest works of English literature. A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights transcends your average romance and, with its Gothic undertones, takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge.
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Almost Peerless
- De Brad Simkulet en 02-04-18
De: Emily Brontë, y otros
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The Jane Austen Collection
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Claire Foy, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Billie Piper, y otros
- Duración: 45 h
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Renowned as much for her wit and satirical social commentary as for her stories of love and romance, Jane Austen remains unfailingly relevant and one of Britain’s best loved authors. In this Audible Original collection, an all-star list of narrators (Billie Piper, Claire Foy, Emma Thompson, Florence Pugh and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) capture Austen’s pin-sharp humour and tone in these dramatisations of her six beloved novels accompanied by a full cast.
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Not a faithful rendition
- De Anne McClain en 12-13-20
De: Jane Austen
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Emma
- De: Jane Austen
- Narrado por: Jenny Agutter
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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Emma can be enjoyed as a charming love story, a detective story, and a comic and lively picture of English life 200 years ago. Austen's beautiful, clever, wilful but fallible heroine Emma Woodhouse believes she knows best. Perfectly content with her life she sees no need for either love or marriage, yet nothing pleases her more than meddling in the romantic lives of others.
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pure pleasure
- De Elizabeth en 05-14-10
De: Jane Austen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Love and Friendship (aka 'Love and Freindship')
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- jodylp1
- 08-30-22
A bit of a struggle
The narrator did everything they could, but it was not enjoyable to have so many character & plots. It felt very disjointed. I realize that this is a collection & not everything was finished. But as much as I love her other books, I cannot love this.
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- david
- 10-07-20
Great short story by JA
Another great addition to the beautiful work of Jane Austen. If you enjoy reading classics, I suggest giving this short story a listen.
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- Jes_074
- 01-02-15
Letter to make up a book
This was a new twist I didn’t see coming when I got this book. Having read many of Jane’s works I was surprised which is hard considering I’ve read so many of her works to see that she did the whole book as a series of letters. I wondered where Stieg Larsson got the idea for his books.
In the end this is a fun story that I won’t ruin for anyone as it surprised me which again after reading almost all of Jane’s works was hard to do.
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- Anja
- 10-06-21
Funny!
These stories are well worth the listen after Austen's novels and a good biography of her life. They made me laugh!
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- Heather
- 09-21-23
Embarrassing for Austen, Entertaining for Us
In a word: ridiculous.
This story seems to be a mockery of female sensibilities and literary clichés, those statistically impossible events which has the affect that… this is all too convenient. I saw that a film rendition was made in 2016, and I’m so curious about it, now! It might be more like a comedy considering how women are fainting and running mad every other sentence. It may be a mockery of common clichés, which I think we expect of Austen… or… maybe she really didn’t know what she was doing with this short story.
Jane Austen wrote this tale at the age of 14. Like “The Screwtape Letters,” this narrative unfolds through a series of letters between Marianne, a flighty and naïve young lady, and Laura, an older friend of Marianne’s mother. She marries a mysterious visitor to her home the day after meeting him, and it is simply a series of unfortunate and extremely dramatic events to the end.
One would hope it is satire… but she really was only 14. Perhaps she really thought her little novella a true gem. Or maybe she never attempted its publication during her lifetime because she looked back on it as an early work of embarrassment.
The narrative rambled in such a way that I found my mind wandering. I often had to rewind or just look up Sparknotes if I found I had been distracted for too long. The upside was a fun glimpse of lines that are quoted in the movie, “Mansfield Park”, and one sums up the story quite nicely:
“Beware of fainting fits… Beware of swoons… Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint.”
In this free version on Audible, there is also 1) an unfinished story collected from letters Austen sent to her father, 2) a history of England, 3) a collection of letters, and 4) scraps of writings. These wouldn’t be found interesting to most readers who except fanatics like myself.
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