Persuasion: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Persuasion by Jane Austen: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 24 original MP3 tracks, 8:28:08 running time and a link to listen.
Persuasion, 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, by Jane Austen. Read by Moira Fogarty. "All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." In persuasion, her last novel, Austen explores the theme of postponed but enduring love, delayed by class boundaries and excessive pride. Anne Elliot, the story's aged (27 year old) heroine, suffers from a decision that was forced upon her several years ago—to break off a relationship with Capn. Frederick Wentworth, the man she deeply loved. As Austen examines the causes and consequences of this action, she sketches for us the social complexities of being part of the upper-middle-class in England at the beginning of the nineteenth century. (Summary by Moira Fogarty)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Persuasion
- Author credits: Jane Austen
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 24
- Listed recording duration: 8:28:08
Catalogue topics
- free
- public
- domain
- pd
- jane
- austen
- persuasion
- novel
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter One — 16:32
- 02 - Chapter Two — 11:59
- 03 - Chapter Three — 16:57
- 04 - Chapter Four — 12:16
- 05 - Chapter Five — 19:50
- 06 - Chapter Six — 21:50
- 07 - Chapter Seven — 21:21
- 08 - Chapter Eight — 21:24
- 09 - Chapter Nine — 18:02
- 10 - Chapter Ten — 25:11
- 11 - Chapter Eleven — 19:00
- 12 - Chapter Twelve — 32:35
- 13 - Chapter Thirteen — 16:34
- 14 - Chapter Fourteen — 15:10
- 15 - Chapter Fifteen — 17:16
- 16 - Chapter Sixteen — 15:23
- 17 - Chapter Seventeen — 21:52
- 18 - Chapter Eighteen — 23:37
- 19 - Chapter Nineteen — 14:20
- 20 - Chapter Twenty — 21:46
- 21 - Chapter Twenty-One — 41:15
- 22 - Chapter Twenty-Three — 34:33
- 23 - Chapter Twenty-Three — 39:44
- 24 - Chapter Twenty-Four — 9:51
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