Even though it has been two hundred years since the world was first introduced to sisters Marianne and Elinor Dashwood’s financial, social and romantic trials, their story remains for me, as fresh and vibrant as any contemporary story you might read of, experience yourself, or hear tell tale of today. I give full credit, of [...]
Archive for the ‘Audio Book Reviews’ Category
Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (Naxos Audiobooks) – A Review
Posted in Audio Book Reviews, Blog Events, Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, The Sense and Sensibility Bicentenary Challenge 2011, tagged Book Reviews, Books, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Jane Austen, Jane Austen Audio, Juliet Stevenson, Naxos AudioBooks on 21 September 2011 | 44 Comments »
Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen (Naxos Audiobooks) – A Review & Giveaway
Posted in Audio Book Reviews, Blog Events, Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's Works, Pride and Prejudice without Zombies, tagged Books, Classic Literature, Elizabeth Bennet, Emilia Fox, Fiction, Jane Austen, Mr. Darcy, Naxos AudioBooks, Pride and Prejudice on 20 June 2010 | 34 Comments »
One is humbled to review a book considered a classic of world literature. What could I possibly say about Pride and Prejudice that has not been scrutinized by scholars, exalted by enthusiasts or bemoaned by students who have been forced to read it and just don’t get what all the fuss is about? Plenty, and [...]
Venetia, by Georgette Heyer, read by Richard Armitage (Naxos AudioBooks): A Review & Giveaway
Posted in Audio Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Georgette Heyer Book Reviews, tagged Audio Book, Book Review, Books, Fiction, Georgette Heyer, Historical Fiction, Regency romance, Richard Armitage, Venetia on 6 April 2010 | 53 Comments »
Did you know that Georgette Heyer is British author and literary critic Margaret Drabble’s favorite historical novelist? I know! High praise from an author who has written eighteen novels, introductions to all of Jane Austen’s major and minor works, been awarded a Doctorate in Letters from Cambridge University and the CBE and DBE by the [...]
The Watsons and Sanditon, by Jane Austen (Naxos AudioBooks): A Review & Giveaway
Posted in Audio Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's The Watsons, Jane Austen's Works, tagged Book Reveiw, Books, Fiction, Jane Austen, Naxos AudioBooks, Sanditon, The Watsons on 16 March 2010 | 15 Comments »
“One abandoned and the other uncompleted.” The Watsons and Sanditon may be fragments in Jane Austen’s literary canon, but they still deserve due deference. Composed over a decade apart in 1803-4 and 1817, each represents Austen’s desire to continue writing during two challenging times in her life. The Watsons was started when Jane was living [...]
Persuasion, by Jane Austen (Naxos AudioBooks) Review & Giveaway
Posted in Audio Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Persuasion, Jane Austen's Works, tagged Books, Fiction, Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Persuasion, Juliet Stevenson, Naxos AudioBooks, Review on 23 February 2010 | 47 Comments »
Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last completed novel was written between 1815 and 1816, with final chapter revisions in August of that year. Published posthumously in late 1817 with her earlier work Northanger Abbey, each of the novels represents the alpha and omega of her writing career. Even though they are divergent in tone and topic, they each [...]
Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (Naxos AudioBooks) – A Review and Giveaway
Posted in Audio Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Works, tagged Audio Book, Book Review, Books, Fiction, Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Juliet Stevenson, Naxos AudioBooks on 16 February 2010 | 52 Comments »
Northanger Abbey is the exuberant lesser known child of Jane Austen’s oeuvre. Even though it was her first novel to be completed and sold in 1803, much to Austen’s bemusement it was never published and languished with Crosby & Co for thirteen years until she bought it back for the ten pounds that the publisher [...]














