Sense and Sensibility - (Version 02): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sense and Sensibility - (Version 02), credited to Jane Austen, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Sense and Sensibility - (Version 02) by Jane Austen. Read by Mark F. Smith. This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriage prospect must make “sense” by bringing with it enough assets and income to permit the couple to continue to live in happy, idle leisure, complete with servants and a prestigious address. Provided one can find such a match among the eligible persons of the opposite sex, one then hopes for “sensibility”, or capacity for emotion, so that if love is not immediately to hand, it might come around later. And while these gentlemen and ladies make their hopeful pirouettes in the social eye, they must of course adhere to all the forms of civility. Jane Austen writes of the family of a gentleman named Dashwood who dies and leaves most of his fortune to his son, with the understanding that he will “look out for” his mother and three sisters. When that son marries a grasping woman who convinces him that his sisters’ funds are suitable to their needs and so require no contributions from his inherited fortune, the sisters are left to play the game of “Sense and Sensibility” in earnest. But all’s not fair in love. Carefully prepared “attachments” can and do go awry when gentlemen find other young women of greater fortunes than the Dashwood sisters. So, will they marry for love? Or money? Or perhaps, not at all? (summary by Mark F. Smith)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sense and Sensibility - (Version 02)
• Author credits: Jane Austen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 50
• Listed recording duration: 13:26:05

Catalogue topics

• sense: sensibility: fiction
• austen
• audio books

Opening tracks: first 24 of 50

1. Chapter 01 — 11:31
2. Chapter 02 — 13:54
3. Chapter 03 — 10:59
4. Chapter 04 — 13:27
5. Chapter 05 — 7:13
6. Chapter 06 — 8:55
7. Chapter 07 — 8:51
8. Chapter 08 — 8:45
9. Chapter 09 — 12:27
10. Chapter 10 — 14:14
11. Chapter 11 — 10:18
12. Chapter 12 — 11:11
13. Chapter 13 — 14:06
14. Chapter 14 — 10:11
15. Chapter 15 — 17:00
16. Chapter 16 — 14:00
17. Chapter 17 — 11:34
18. Chapter 18 — 10:30
19. Chapter 19 — 19:04
20. Chapter 20 — 15:23
21. Chapter 21 — 19:24
22. Chapter 22 — 19:16
23. Chapter 23 — 16:20
24. Chapter 24 — 14:14

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