Love and Freindship: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Love and Freindship, 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 Love and Freindship [sic], by Jane Austen. Read by Cori Samuel. Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love," which neatly undercuts the title. Written in epistolary form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything else, featuring wild coincidences and turns of fortune, but Austen is determined to lampoon the conventions of romantic stories, right down to the utter failure of romantic fainting spells, which always turn out dreadfully for the female characters. In this story one can see the development of Austen's sharp wit and disdain for romantic sensibility, so characteristic of her later novels. Summary revised from Wikipedia by Cori Samuel. Music from Schubert's Fantasy in C Major, at musopen.com.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Love and Freindship
• Author credits: Jane Austen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 1:09:44

Catalogue topics

• austen
• satire
• romance
• parody

Track guide

1. 1 Letters 01 - 10 — 28:06
2. 2 Letters 11 - 13 — 22:53
3. 3 Letters 14 - 15 — 18:46

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