Persuasion (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Persuasion (version 2), 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 Elizabeth Klett. Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with a poor but ambitious young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots were dissatisfied with Anne's choice, feeling he was not distinguished enough for their family, and her older friend and mentor, Lady Russell, acting in place of Anne's deceased mother, persuaded her to break off the match. Now 27 and considered a spinster, Anne re-encounters her former fiance, now a captain, as he courts her spirited young neighbour, Louisa Musgrove. The self-interested machinations of Anne's older sister Elizabeth, of Elizabeth's friend Mrs. Clay, and of Anne's father's heir, William Elliot, constitute an important subplot. (Summary from Wikipedia).

Recording facts

• Recording title: Persuasion (version 2)
• Author credits: Jane Austen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 24
• Listed recording duration: 7:52:14

Catalogue topics

• austen
• persuasion
• romance
• regency

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 — 16:25
2. Chapter 02 — 11:44
3. Chapter 03 — 17:16
4. Chapter 04 — 11:16
5. Chapter 05 — 19:12
6. Chapter 06 — 20:13
7. Chapter 07 — 18:32
8. Chapter 08 — 18:54
9. Chapter 09 — 16:00
10. Chapter 10 — 21:43
11. Chapter 11 — 17:25
12. Chapter 12 — 30:06
13. Chapter 13 — 15:34
14. Chapter 14 — 14:14
15. Chapter 15 — 16:30
16. Chapter 16 — 14:46
17. Chapter 17 — 20:22
18. Chapter 18 — 22:42
19. Chapter 19 — 13:34
20. Chapter 20 — 20:00
21. Chapter 21 — 38:19
22. Chapter 22 — 31:19
23. Chapter 23 — 37:32
24. Chapter 24 — 8:44

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