Twilight Sleep-Edith Wharton

Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton.Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for some of her victims. Every character she introduces is vividly depicted, no matter how minor. Yet for all the clarity of these depictions, the lives these people live, though busy, are empty and meaningless. The novel is a brilliant description of evasion and inauthenticity.Featured on Emma by Jane Austen - A Dramatic Reading.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 002.This volume includes Various Detectives, Cute Animals, Talking Fireworks, and Interesting People and Situations: See cast list for authors and book/story names.Featured on Emma by Jane Austen - A Dramatic Reading.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 005.This collection contains readings from George MacDonald, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Hemingway, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Louisa May Alcott, Stephen Leacock, Harlan Cozad McIntosh, and Charles Dickens. 1. These two girls, who look exactly alike, could not be more different. What will they learn, when a wise woman crosses their paths - and is it too late for Princess Rosamund to change her ways? The Star Child, by Oscar Wilde Coordinated and edited by Inkell , with proof-listening by Brian Fullen . When a young and handsome foundling decides to ignore the kind teachings of the people who took him in, he finds that he hurts those who care about him most. Follow the Star Child as he learns the value - and true beauty - of compassion. The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Coordinated and edited by Inkell , with proof-listening by Brian Fullen .Featured on Emma by Jane Austen - A Dramatic Reading.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).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 Emma by Jane Austen - A Dramatic Reading.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 Emma by Jane Austen - A Dramatic Reading.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Love and Friendship by Jane Austen."These inventive and entertaining pieces display the genesis of the wit and imagination of Jane Austen{u2019}s mature fiction, and are by turns amusing, acerbic, and occasionally downright silly. The stories Love and Friendship and Lesley Castle provide parodies of the gentry and the fashionable idea of sensibility of the time, while A History of England is a lively chronicle of English monarchic history. Also included in this collection are The Three Sisters, Catharine, and the series of vignettes known as A Collection of Letters. Taken together, these pieces display all the wry humour, shrewd observation and satirical insight of Emma or Pride and Prejudice."--Publisher's description.Featured on Emma by Jane Austen - A Dramatic Reading.Public-domain audiobook.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Lady Susan (version 2) by Jane Austen.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 searches for suitable husbands for herself and her young daughter, the actual action shares its importance with Austen’s manipulation of her characters' behavior by means of their reactions to the letters that they receive. The heroine adds additional interest by altering the tone of her own letters based on the recipient of the letter. Thus, the character of Lady Susan is developed through many branches as Austen suggests complications of identity and the way in which that identity is based on interaction rather than on solitary constructions of personality.Featured on Emma by Jane Austen - A Dramatic Reading.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Lesley Castle (Dramatic Reading) by Jane Austen.Lesley Castle is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was sixteen 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 Lesley Castle. 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 Lesley Castle in “Volume the Second”. Lesley Castle is set contemporaneously to Austen’s writing and consists of a series of ten letters by five characters, all of whom are women of high society living in Great Britain. In this short work, Austen employs a mock serious tone to humorously critique her peers on subjects such as self-absorption and jealousy.Featured on Emma by Jane Austen - A Dramatic Reading.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).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 Emma by Jane Austen - A Dramatic Reading.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 Emma by Jane Austen - A Dramatic Reading.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.