The Jane Austen Omnibus - Audible

 

The Jane Austen Omnibus

By Jane Austen
Narrators: 
Catherine Bilson
Terah Tucker
Sarah Jane Rose
Graham Scott
Denis Daly
Linda Barrans


Release date
04-15-25
Language
English
Format
Unabridged Audiobook
Length
84 hrs and 45 mins
Publisher
Voices of Today Pty LTD
Categories
Literature & Fiction    

About this listen

Jane Austen commenced writing in her adolescence and continued right up to her untimely death in 1817. Her novels are reflections of the socially constricted world in which she lived, and the plots are built around the search of one or more young women for a suitable spouse. Austen’s works are noted for the perceptive elegance of her prose and for vigor and detail of characterization. Celebrated critic F. R. Leavis considered Austen as one of the four great English novelists, along with George Eliot, Henry James, and Joseph Conrad.

This collection contains the following titles:
Sense and Sensibility (1811)
Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Mansfield Park and Lovers’ Vows (1814)
Emma (1816)

Works published posthumously:
Northanger Abbey (1818)
Persuasion (1818)
Lady Susan (1871)

Unfinished works:
The Watsons (1871); completed by L. Oulton (1923)
Sanditon: Fragment of a Novel (1925)

Public Domain (P)2025 Voices of Today                                               

So I'm listening to this version of Jane Austen's works and so far, it's holding my attention.  Some of the character voices are a bit odd to me but it's probably because I saw the movies first before listening to the books.  It's not enough to put me off though.





















































































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