Angharad Rees Stars as Emma in This BBC Radio Full-Cast dramatization of Jane Austen's Classic Novel. Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor...
Angharad Rees Stars as Emma in This BBC Radio Full-Cast dramatization of Jane Austen's Classic Novel. Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor...
Penguin Classics. Abridged. Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense-but Emma is lovable precisely because she is...
Penguin Classics. Abridged. Of all Jane Austen's heroines, Emma Woodhouse is the most flawed, the most infuriating, and, in the end, the most endearing. Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet has more wit and sparkle; Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey more imagination; and Sense and Sensibility's Elinor Dashwood certainly more sense-but Emma is lovable precisely because she is...
Goya LiT, Jumbo, Hamburg. Series: The Sound of the Language. Read by various actresses and actors. This epistolary novel, never published during her lifetime, shows how powerful the author's narrative talents were from the very start. In "Lady Susan" Jane Austen is already playing with the themes which characterise her later work - love and marriage. The egotistical and...
Love and Freindship; Lesley Castle; The History of England; Collection of Letters; Scraps "Love and Friendship" collects Jane Austen's earliest writings, the "Juvenilia, " not published in her lifetime. Immensely funny and remarkably sophisticated, their unerring accuracy has not diminished in 200 years.
Read by Juliet Stevenson. Classic Literature with Classical Music. Duration: 4 hr. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the...
Hannah Gordon, Amanda Root, and Michael Williams star in this sparkling BBC full-cast radio drama. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while...
Read by Juliet Stevenson. Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death-well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it,...
Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death-well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the...
Though Northanger Abbey is one of Jane Austen's earliest novels, it was not published until after her death-well after she'd established her reputation with works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. Of all her novels, this one is the most explicitly literary in that it is primarily concerned with books and with readers. In it, Austen skewers the...
Complete & Unabridged. Attached is a PDF file with the full English text. At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other...
Complete & Unabridged. Attached is a PDF file with the full English text. At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other...
"Blackstone Audiobooks", 2000 . The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author’s own lost love. The book’s heroine, Anne Elliot, encounters Frederick Wentworth, the man to whom she was once engaged when he was a young naval officer. Now a captain, Wentworth is courting the rash young Louisa...
"Blackstone Audiobooks", 2000 . The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author’s own lost love. The book’s heroine, Anne Elliot, encounters Frederick Wentworth, the man to whom she was once engaged when he was a young naval officer. Now a captain, Wentworth is courting the rash young Louisa...
"Blackstone Audiobooks", 2000 . The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author’s own lost love. The book’s heroine, Anne Elliot, encounters Frederick Wentworth, the man to whom she was once engaged when he was a young naval officer. Now a captain, Wentworth is courting the rash young Louisa...
"Blackstone Audiobooks", 2000 . The last novel completed by Jane Austen before she died in her early forties, Persuasion is often thought to be the story of the author’s own lost love. The book’s heroine, Anne Elliot, encounters Frederick Wentworth, the man to whom she was once engaged when he was a young naval officer. Now a captain, Wentworth is courting the rash young Louisa...
2007 . - MP3, 128 Kbps. Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after...
2007 . - MP3, 128 Kbps. Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after...
2007 . - MP3, 128 Kbps. Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after...
2007 . - MP3, 128 Kbps. Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after...
2007 . - MP3, 128 Kbps. Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case, she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social stationwise, and that Anne could do better. The novel opens some seven years after...
Originally titled "Elinor and Marianne", "Sense and Sensibility" was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be published. The contrasting personalities of two sisters are the centre of the story, supported by a wealth of satirically portrayed minor characters.
Pengun Classics. Abridged by Carole Rosen. Produced by Mellie Buse. Read by Julie Christie, who has appeared in a great many high acclaimed films over the last three decades, the most popular being Dr Zhivago , The Go-Between , Heat and Dust and Far from Madding Crowd . Annotation: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but...
Duration: 5 hr. 30 min. Pengun Classics. Abridged by Carole Rosen. Produced by Mellie Buse. Read by Julie Christie, who has appeared in a great many high acclaimed films over the last three decades, the most popular being Dr Zhivago , The Go-Between , Heat and Dust and Far from Madding Crowd . Annotation: Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in...
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