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Jane Austen - The Complete Novels - Special Edition

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Beth Kesler
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About this listen

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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If you are going to to read a classical English story, please pronounce words the English way. I don’t mind accents, but it really interferes with the story when you hear Mr Darcy use American pronunciation of words repeatedly. Surely as an actress you learn how the character would pronounce the word

And when you want to listen to a new book, there is no easy way to skip to the next book, you need to find out where it starts, which in itself requires detective work.

Lady Susan ch1
Sense and sensibility ch43
Pride and Predjudice Ch 93
Mansfield Park Ch154
Emma Ch 202
Persuasion Ch 256
Northanger Abbey ch280
The Watson Ch 310

Just get another version, not worth it, even on special offer

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While I enjoy Jane Austen and am pleased in general with this book - reasonably priced and listed chronologically - within seconds I was dismayed. Apart from the narrators grating mispronunciations of words like room (rum) and really (rally), during Lady Susan, her pronunciation of the surname Mainwaring - pronounced Mannering in reality - as Main Wearing had me cringing every time. I detected a slightly American lilt to the narrator's accent, which is not an issue in itself, but if she was trying to effect an English accent it might have been prudent to learn how to pronounce certain words properly. Another niggle is that Jane Austen was from the southern home counties, so words like laughter, glass, etc would have been pronounced with the long a sound - i.e. glars, barth - rather than the short a sound. Otherwise, its an enjoyable book to listen to.

Sorry, having listened further, it's lost a star. The narrator obviously struggles to retain a vaguely English accent and her inability to pronounce some simple words, that Google Translate would have easily sorted, I find distracts me from truly enjoying the novels. If you are going to narrate a period novel in an accent that is not your natural one, at least make the effort to learn how to pronounce certain words properly. As her American accent is obvious throughout, it would have been much more preferable - and easier on her vocal chords, I would imagine - if she had used her natural accent and just checked on the place names, etc. English is a tricky language, full of contradictions in pronunciations - heck, even some native British people struggle with it, especially if they are not familiar with the local pronunciations of places and names. Seeing Featherstonehaugh, as a surname, and knowing to pronounce it Fanshaw, for example. I heard her mention 'Comb' Magna, during Sense and Sensibility, when Combe is pronounced 'coom'. Maybe I'm just being pedantic but I am finding new horrors - to me, anyway - with each chopter.....sorry, chapter.

Irritating narrator

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