Emma: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Emma, credited to Jane Austen, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Emma, by Jane Austen. Read by Maria Therese. Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters. Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich." Emma, however, is also rather spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives, and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray. (Adapted from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Emma
• Author credits: Jane Austen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 55
• Listed recording duration: 14:42:59

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• novel
• romance
• love
• comedy
• manners
• humor
• regency

Opening tracks: first 24 of 55

1. 01 - Volume 1, Chapter 1 — 18:55
2. 02 - Volume 1, Chapter 2 — 10:09
3. 03 - Volume 1, Chapter 3 — 10:47
4. 04 - Volume 1, Chapter 4 — 19:57
5. 05 - Volume 1, Chapter 4 — 11:19
6. 06 - Volume 1, Chapter 6 — 15:50
7. 07 - Volume 1, Chapter 7 — 14:10
8. 08 - Volume 1, Chapter 8 — 24:11
9. 09 - Volume 1, Chapter 9 — 27:18
10. 10 - Volume 1, Chapter 10 — 14:43
11. 11 - Volume 1, Chapter 11 — 12:35
12. 12 - Volume 1, Chapter 12 — 18:24
13. 13 - Volume 1, Chapter 13 — 16:58
14. 14 - Volume 1, Chapter 14 — 13:29
15. 15 - Volume 1, Chapter 15 — 18:59
16. 16 - Volume 1, Chapter 16 — 10:57
17. 17 - Volume 1 Chapter 17 — 7:02
18. 18 - Volume 1, Chapter 18 — 14:00
19. 19 - Volume 2, Chapter 1 — 15:34
20. 20 - Volume 2, Chapter 2 — 13:42
21. 21 - Volume 2, Chapter 3 — 21:07
22. 22 - Volume 2, Chapter 4 — 9:51
23. 23 - Volume 2, Chapter 5 — 17:46
24. 24 - Volume 2, Chapter 6 — 16:35

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