Persuasion (dramatic reading): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Persuasion (dramatic reading) by Jane Austen: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 24 original MP3 tracks, 8:23:48 running time and a link to listen.
Persuasion (dramatic reading), 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 Persuasion (dramatic reading) by Jane Austen. Read in English by Elizabeth Klett; mb; TriciaG; Jason Mills; Bob Neufeld; Bill Mosley; Algy Pug; Elizabeth Barr; Beth Thomas; Max Körlinge; Amanda Friday; Kristin Gjerløw; ToddHW; Katalina Watt; Michele Eaton; Eden Rea-Hedrick; Charlotte Duckett; Libby Gohn; Maryanka; Loveday; Frances Brown; WoollyBee; Maria Kasper; Larry Wilson; Richard Friday More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Walter, Anne's fatuous, snobbish father and her equally self-involved older sister Elizabeth were dissatisfied with her choice, maintaining that he was no match for an Elliot of Kellynch Hall, the family estate. Her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's late mother, persuaded her to break the engagement. Now 27 and still unmarried, Anne re-encounters her former love when his sister and brother-in-law, the Crofts, take out a lease on Kellynch. Wentworth is now a captain and wealthy from maritime victories in the Napoleonic wars. However, he has not forgiven Anne for rejecting him. While publicly declaring that he is ready to marry any suitable young woman who catches his fancy, he privately resolves that he is ready to become attached to any appealing young woman except for Anne Elliot. (Summary by Wikipedia)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Persuasion (dramatic reading)
- Author credits: Jane Austen
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 24
- Listed recording duration: 8:23:48
Catalogue topics
- love
- marriage
- social class
Track guide
- 01 - Cast and Chapter 1 — 19:45
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 12:53
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 17:51
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 12:24
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 18:45
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 21:43
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 19:30
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 19:36
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 16:17
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 22:51
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 17:54
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 32:24
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 16:30
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 14:14
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 17:20
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 15:00
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 22:05
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 24:39
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 14:56
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 21:26
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 41:14
- 22 - Chapter 22 — 33:17
- 23 - Chapter 23 — 40:51
- 24 - Chapter 24 — 10:22
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