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Giveaway winner announced for Sense and Sensibility (Naxos Audiobooks)

Posted in Austenesque Authors, Austenesque Books, tagged , , , , , , on 6 October 2011 | 2 Comments »

42 of you left comments qualifying you for a chance to win a copy of Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, read by Juliet Stevenson (Naxos Audiobooks). The winner drawn at random is haliegirl who left a comment on September 22, 2011. Congratulations haliegirl! To claim your prize, please contact me with your full name [...]

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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 , , , , , , , on 21 September 2011 | 44 Comments »

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 [...]

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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 , , , , , , 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 [...]

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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 , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Emma, by Jane Austen (Naxos AudioBooks) – A Review and Giveaway

Posted in Audio Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , , on 9 February 2010 | 39 Comments »

Emma, Jane Austen’s fourth novel was published in 1815 and dedicated to the Prince Regent, later King George IV.  Austen privately abhorred the Regent for the treatment of his wife Princess Caroline and his dissipated lifestyle. In 1813 she wrote to her friend Martha Lloyd, “I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon [...]

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Northanger Abbey: Naxos AudioBooks (2006) Read by Juliet Stevenson: Day 11 Giveaways

Posted in Audio Book Reviews, Blog Events, Book Reviews, Go Gothic with Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Novels & Letters Book Reviews, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , , , on 19 October 2008 | 17 Comments »

It is believed that Jane Austen wrote many of her first works for the entertainment of her family and would read them aloud for their opinions and enjoyment. It is not hard to imagine that Northanger Abbey was presented to her family in this manner. The language and phrasing lends itself so freely to the [...]

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