EPISODE · Feb 22, 2017 · 9H 26M
Jane Austen presents Northanger Abbey and The History of England
from Access Best-Selling Digital Audiobooks for Your Library · host Jane Austen
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Northanger Abbey and The History of England Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Alison Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 22, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Award-winning narrator and internationally acclaimed writer/comedienne, Alison Larkin brings her signature wit to this dazzling audio production of Jane Austen's first novel, Northanger Abbey, followed by The History of England, a short, delightfully satirical piece rarely heard on audio, written by Jane Austen when she was just fifteen years old. In Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, a clergyman's daughter, longs for the kind of romantic adventures she has read about in her favorite Gothic novels. After spending a season mingling with fashionable high society in Bath, she is invited to stay at Northanger Abbey where nothing is what it seems. In The History of England, the teenage Jane Austen pokes fun at the historians of the day who pretended to be objective when they clearly were not, and wrote about the kings and queens of England with less respect (and more wit) than a British newspaper.
What this episode covers
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289088 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Northanger Abbey and The History of England Author: Jane Austen Narrator: Alison Larkin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 26 minutes Release date: February 22, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.8 of Total 5 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Classics Publisher's Summary: Award-winning narrator and internationally acclaimed writer/comedienne, Alison Larkin brings her signature wit to this dazzling audio production of Jane Austen's first novel, Northanger Abbey, followed by The History of England, a short, delightfully satirical piece rarely heard on audio, written by Jane Austen when she was just fifteen years old. In Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland, a clergyman's daughter, longs for the kind of romantic adventures she has read about in her favorite Gothic novels. After spending a season mingling with fashionable high society in Bath, she is invited to stay at Northanger Abbey where nothing is what it seems. In The History of England, the teenage Jane Austen pokes fun at the historians of the day who pretended to be objective when they clearly were not, and wrote about the kings and queens of England with less respect (and more wit) than a British newspaper.
NOW PLAYING
Jane Austen presents Northanger Abbey and The History of England
No transcript for this episode yet
Similar Episodes
Mar 26, 2026 ·1m
Mar 19, 2026 ·34m
Feb 18, 2026 ·11m
Feb 11, 2026 ·45m