Jane Austen - The Complete Novels - Special Edition

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Beth Kesler

This book contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication.

• "Lady Susan" Starts at Chapter 1,
• Sense and Sensibility Starts at Chapter 43,
• Pride and Prejudice Starts at Chapter 93,
• Mansfield Park Starts at Chapter 154,
• Emma Starts at Chapter 202,
• Persuasion Starst at Chapter 256,
• Northanger Abbey Starts at Chapter 280,
• The Watson Starts at Chapter 310.

Bonus:

• Sanditon ''Unfinished Masterpiece'' Starts at Chapter 314.

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Classic

Loved the collection. Nice way to discover her work all in one place. Highly recommend, and will keep you listening for days!

Hours of enjoyment

After hearing Pride and Prejudice in another collection of novels, I was curious to hear more Jane Austin. I was not disappointed. I enjoyed each novel very much

Captivating

A book I always come back to... Jane strength, determination and persistence is so inspiring. Thandie Newton's narration is so captivating.

Complete, but with challenges

It is wonderful to have the complete works of Jane Austen for such a low price but it comes at the cost of a difficult interface and lack luster performance. The added bonus of having the two unfinished works herein called the Watsons and Sanditon is good to compare what Miss Austen actually wrote as opposed to the attempts others make to complete her work. I found the Watson’s interesting and wanting more, and Sanditon ends before any of the conflict or tension which occurs in the modern work of fame which I found to be not in keeping with Miss Austen’s other works.
Listening to multi-book sets on Audible is generally unpleasant for the following reasons I’ve experienced with this and 2 other sets I’ve listened in the past. There are 7 parts that each start with chapter 1 which does not correspond to the brief legend in the book description so it is easy to get lost. For instance the book description says only that a certain book starts at chapter 280, but that may be part volume 7 chapter 3 in the visual interface although the performer reads the chapter of the current book; all three are different.
I found the performer generally pleasant to listen to, however her voice is not the most engaging and with the challenges of reading in the tone and accent of so many characters some character voices chosen were annoying for the more insipid or bothersome characters. The entire works are read in English from a British accent of indiscernible origin, but each book is introduced in only German adding to the difficulty of navigating the work.

Starting Chapters for Each Book

Since each part of the audible download begins again with Chapter 1, the chapter information on the page doesn't help a lot. I created my own index. Hope this helps.

Lady Susan (Part 1/Chapter 1)
Sense and Sensibility (Part 1/Chapter 43)
Pride and Prejudice (Part 2/Chapter 10)
Mansfield Park (Part 3/Chapter 15)
Emma (Part 4/Chapter 23)
Persuasion (Part 5/Chapter 41)
Northanger Abbey (Part 6/Chapter 25)
The Watson (Not sure. Should be around Part 7/Chapter 16)
Sanditon (Part 7/Chapter 20)