Northanger Abbey (version 4): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Northanger Abbey (version 4), 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 Northanger Abbey (version 4) by Jane Austen. Read in English by Tony Addison If it is a truth universally acknowledged that a good-looking girl cannot fail of attracting a clever young man does it follow that the reverse is also true? If the man comes of a terrifyingly dysfunctional family and the girl in question likes to see spooks and horrors round every corner, yes. Morland by name, Lackland by nature, Catherine, not altogether addicted to the heroine role in general, finds this greatness thrust upon her in the (fortunately, principally financial) fantasies of her would-be inamorato's father, the General. When the General finds she is the artless, simple girl that she appears and not the creature of his frankly heartless imaginings of her, he thrusts her - but I leave the event to your fevered, no doubt Gothick, even, imaginination to determine. A deliberate parody of the horrific strand in popular culture, as Jane Austen no doubt herself would observe if she could see the burgeoning cult of the Undead in Unliterary culture - It is as if Northanger Abbey had never been written! Hear it and laugh. - Summary by Tony Addison

Recording facts

• Recording title: Northanger Abbey (version 4)
• Author credits: Jane Austen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 9:50:05

Catalogue topics

• humour romance gothic parody

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 9:40
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 16:40
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 12:27
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 9:53
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 9:17
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 11:32
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 20:38
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 18:07
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 23:39
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 26:16
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 19:33
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 13:06
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 23:36
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 25:36
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 22:37
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 19:04
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 11:23
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 14:03
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 12:35
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 23:50
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 25:27
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 30:14
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 24:27
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 26:39

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