Love & Freindship, and Other Early Works: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Love & Freindship, and Other Early Works, 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

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LibriVox recording of Love & Freindship, and Other Early Works by Jane Austen. Read in English by NoelBadrian 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. - Summary by Noel Badrian

Recording facts

• Recording title: Love & Freindship, and Other Early Works
• Author credits: Jane Austen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 4:29:22

Catalogue topics

• letters
• juvenilia

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface by G. K. Chesterton — 16:22
2. 01 - Love and Freindship - Letters 1 to 9 — 31:07
3. 02 - Love and Freindship - Letters 10 to 13 — 32:13
4. 03 - Love and Freindship - Letters 14 and 15 — 21:54
5. 04 - Lesley Castle - Letters 1 to 3 — 24:05
6. 05 - Lesley Castle - Letters 4 to 6 — 21:59
7. 06 - Lesley Castle - Letters 7 to 10 — 26:40
8. 07 - The History of England — 26:15
9. 08 - Collection of Letters - Letters 1 to 3 — 26:03
10. 09 - Collection of Letters - Letters 4 and 5 — 25:42
11. 10 - Scraps — 17:02

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