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Emma Audiobook

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Read By: Catherine Bilson, Terah Tucker, Graham Scott, Linda Barrans, Denis Daly, various narrators Publisher: Voices of Today Pty LTD Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 11.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 8.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798212408677

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

57

Longest Chapter Length:

39:36 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

15 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

17:34 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

127

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Publisher Description

Emma was written after the publication of Pride and Prejudice and was the last novel of Jane Austen to be published in her lifetime.

Of the title character, Austen wrote: “I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.” Emma is a vivacious twenty-year-old, who has spent her life in the pleasant seclusion of a village community and who lives with her widowed valetudinarian father. Most of the neighbors admire and approve of her, except for George Knightley, a local landowner, who often expresses his disapproval of Emma’s highhanded and controlling tendencies, in particular her assumption of the unofficial role of matchmaker. Much of the early action focuses on Emma’s attempt to encourage the courtship of her ingenuous friend Harriet Smith and Philip Elton, the local vicar. When this scheme fails, Emma switches her attention to her own romantic attachments, and again errs in misjudging the behavior of a potential suitor, Frank Churchill. However, in the end, as in all Austen novels, all the eligible couples are satisfactorily paired off, and Emma is led to understand how little she previously knew about how truly long-lasting relationships are formed.

Like all the other works of Jane AustenEmma has been used as the basis for a number of presentations on film and television series, including Clueless, a 1995 American romcom.

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About Jane Austen

Jane Austen (1775–1817) is considered by many scholars to be the first great woman novelist. Born in Steventon, England, she later moved to Bath and began to write for her own and her family’s amusement. Her novels, set in her own English countryside, depict the daily lives of provincial middle-class families with wry observation, a delicate irony, and a good-humored wit.

About the Narrators

Graham Scott is a narrator and voice actor based in the UK. As well as solo performances of works by authors including PG Wodehouse, Charles Dickens, R Austin Freeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Jules Verne, Anna Katherine Green, Joseph Conrad, GK Chesterton, and John Buchan, Graham is also a regular performer in group productions with both Voices of Today and the Online Stage. Website: www.GrahamScottAudio.com

Linda Barrans is a British narrator with a fondness for Jane Austen and Shakespeare. She wrote the Sam the Sheep books to make positive use of the time during COVID lockdown, and to give herself and her friend Cate Barratt a modern piece to record together.

Denis Daly is an audiobook narrator and codirector of Voices of Today, an Australian spoken word production house.