Northanger Abbey (Version 5)-Jane Austen

Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield."(N)ot to say that they are cheerful stories; they are anything but that; they have not, however, that element of trivial discomfort so dominant in modern fiction", a critic wrote in the Spectator on the publication of this, the second of Mansfield's collections of short stories in book form. There is a wide range of forms and subjects here. Some of these stories are bold, early forays into literary territory that Mansfield's frenemy Virginia Woolf would later triumphantly stake out as her own. The adult male characters tend to be perversely wooden, the central female characters often verge on states of ecstasy or frank neuroticism, while ever present in the background are children, whose experiences are nearly always treated with great tenderness and sympathy.Featured on Mansfield Park.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Story of Cairo-Stanley Lane by Poole.Featured on Mansfield Park.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Love and Freindship (Dramatic Reading) by Jane Austen.Love and Freindship [sic] is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was fourteen years old. Although the novels Austen became known for were not published until she was in her thirties, she was an active writer from the age of twelve, frequently composing epistolary works such as Love and Freindship. Austen eventually compiled 29 of her early writings in three notebooks that became known as the Juvenilia and that she called “Volume the First”, “Volume the Second”, and “Volume the Third”, including Love and Freindship in “Volume the Second”. Love and Freindship is set contemporaneously to Austen’s writing and consists of a series of fifteen letters, most of which are written from the perspective of the protagonist, Laura, who recounts her extraordinary personal history to her friend Isabel’s daughter.Featured on Mansfield Park.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Collection of Letters (Dramatic Reading) by Jane Austen.A Collection of Letters is an epistolary short story collection written by Jane Austen when she was fourteen years old. Although the novels Austen became known for were not published until she was in her thirties, she was an active writer from the age of twelve, frequently composing epistolary works such as A Collection of Letters. Austen eventually compiled 29 of her early writings in three notebooks that became known as the Juvenilia and that she called “Volume the First”, “Volume the Second”, and “Volume the Third”, including A Collection of Letters in “Volume the Second”. A Collection of Letters is set contemporaneously to Austen’s writing and consists of a series of five letters, each written by a woman of high society living in Great Britain.Featured on Mansfield Park.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works by Jane Austen.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" and a "Collection of Letters" and lastly a chapter containing "Scraps". In these offerings, we may see the beginnings of Miss Austen's literary style. We may also discern traces of characters that we encounter in her later works. G. K. Chesterton in his preface, for example, says of a passage in Love and Freindship; "... is there not the foreshadowing of another and more famous father; and do we not hear for a moment, in the rustic cottage by the Uske, the unmistakable voice of Mr. Bennet?" These works are certainly worth exploring for their own sakes and not simply as historical relics.Featured on Mansfield Park.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Persuasion (version 2) by Jane Austen.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 mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's deceased mother, persuaded her to break off the match. Now 27 and considered a spinster, Anne re-encounters her former fiance, now a captain, as he courts her spirited young neighbour, Louisa Musgrove. The self-interested machinations of Anne's older sister Elizabeth, of Elizabeth's friend Mrs. Clay, and of Anne's father's heir, William Elliot, constitute an important subplot.Featured on Mansfield Park.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

The Letters of Jane Austen by Jane Austen.I-II. Sense and sensibility. III-IV. Pride and prejudice. V-VI. Mansfield park. VII-VIII. Emma. IX. Northanger abbey. X. Persuasion. XI. Lady Susan, The Watsons, Letters of Jane Austen [pt. 1]. XII. Letters of Jane Austen [pt.Featured on Mansfield Park.Public-domain audiobook.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Northanger Abbey (Version 5) by Jane Austen.What could be more entrancing than Northanger Abbey? Catherine quite fears the Abbey. Find out why!Featured on Mansfield Park.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.This episode includes AI-generated content.