The Watsons: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Watsons, 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 The Watsons, by Jane Austen. This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh printed it in his A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1871. The title is from him. Mr Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters. But when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to return to her father's house. There she is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her twenty-something sisters. (Summary from Gesine and Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Watsons
• Author credits: Jane Austen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 6
• Listed recording duration: 1:48:26

Catalogue topics

• audio book
• austen
• novel

Track guide

1. Part 01 — 26:52
2. Part 02 — 23:18
3. Part 03 — 15:42
4. Part 04 — 8:49
5. Part 05 — 27:02
6. Part 06 — 6:46

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