The Watsons by Jane Austen (FULL Audio Book)

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    The Watsons (FULL Audio Book)
    by Jane Austen (1775 -- 1817)
    This fragment of a novel was written by Jane Austen in 1804 and remained untitled and unpublished until her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh printed it in his A Memoir of Jane Austen in 1871. The title is from him.
    Mr Watson is a widowed clergyman with two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Emma, has been brought up by a wealthy aunt and is consequently better educated and more refined than her sisters. But when her aunt contracts a foolish second marriage, Emma is obliged to return to her father's house. There she is chagrined by the crude and reckless husband-hunting of two of her twenty-something sisters.
    (Summary from Gesine and Wikipedia)

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  • @suzum.9713
    @suzum.9713 3 роки тому +49

    Isn't it crazy that these 200 yr old books are still so relevant today??
    I can't imagine having such an amazing writing gift and wo derful insight.
    I recommend all high-schoolers, and older, read every one.

  • @poetryjones7946
    @poetryjones7946 4 роки тому +45

    Oh Jane, how we wished you’d have lived on to finish this! And all the other wonderful books you would have written! 🌹

  • @Sassafras30
    @Sassafras30 3 роки тому +30

    “A woman never looks so good as on horseback” - I love these turns of phrase. ❤️❤️❤️

  • @joannesmith9486
    @joannesmith9486 2 роки тому +11

    What a shame it is for this book to end here!! I am bitten, smitten, and want more!!

  • @mariovillarreal8647
    @mariovillarreal8647 Рік тому +7

    As we " splash along the dirty lane" of life; Librivox smooths the bumps and rocks! Easing the discontents of strife...

  • @cathyburke410
    @cathyburke410 2 роки тому +13

    I love this reader. Beautiful

  • @mosart7025
    @mosart7025 2 роки тому +14

    Miss Osborne: "Charles, you have got a better partner than me."
    Charles: "Yes."
    Me: "Yes you unfeeling, lying, selfish witch!"

    • @rosamariamendoza1466
      @rosamariamendoza1466 2 роки тому +1

      🤭🤭🤭😁😁😁😄😄😄😄😄

    • @joannesmith9486
      @joannesmith9486 2 роки тому +1

      Even at Charle’s young age, ? 11-14 years, perhaps… (as young boys and men were then allowed more freedoms than were young women!) had the perfect honest quick reply to the witch, than had he been older, he might have chosen to filter! Some things, indeed, never change! These types still abound in every generation, and, sadly, shall continue to …

  • @MsNamPac
    @MsNamPac 4 роки тому +16

    Loved this book, wish it was completed.

  • @poetryjones7946
    @poetryjones7946 2 роки тому +17

    Wow - an actual good narrator! Does this reader have any more ? 🙏🏼❤️

  • @EVZYL
    @EVZYL Рік тому +3

    Thank goodness that the author shared her ideas as to the conclusion of the plot so that her readers (or listeners, in this case) are not left in internal suspense!

  • @wordscaninspire114
    @wordscaninspire114 3 роки тому +7

    Nice to find another reading, as well as my own. Love Jane Austen

  • @Tinyflydeposit
    @Tinyflydeposit 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks for a beautiful narration.

  • @diannew6066
    @diannew6066 8 років тому +20

    . Thank you, I enjoyed listening to this book which I have previously read. So well read that I enjoyed it as much as if I'd never read it myself.

  • @niamhmacmahon3670
    @niamhmacmahon3670 6 місяців тому +1

    Thank you for skillful reading

  • @clarajones7646
    @clarajones7646 6 років тому +3

    Thank you......

  • @suzum.9713
    @suzum.9713 3 роки тому +8

    The Watson's? How'd I not know about this?

    • @kattkatt744
      @kattkatt744 2 роки тому +4

      It was begun and abandoned by Austen in 1804. As she both reworked previously written works and wrote new ones after this it was obviously a story she did not feel was interesting enough to tell.

  • @BUBBLESPOGO
    @BUBBLESPOGO 2 роки тому +5

    Never heard of this book.

  • @mariovillarreal8647
    @mariovillarreal8647 Рік тому +1

    Thank you Librivox You Rox!!

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  • @hannahoron9740
    @hannahoron9740 5 років тому +6

    Well read. Thank you!

  • @davidfaulkner7805
    @davidfaulkner7805 Рік тому +1

    Surprising difference of opinions on the reader. But it is very important to find one that you're happy with. I really like her voice.

    • @mariovillarreal8647
      @mariovillarreal8647 Рік тому

      Wonderful reading by Gavina.

    • @ronbedal6097
      @ronbedal6097 9 місяців тому

      Her voice is so soothing… I literally use it as a sleep aid when trying to fall asleep.

  • @mariovillarreal8647
    @mariovillarreal8647 Рік тому +1

    Emma's aunt and uncle did a wonderful job of raising her.

  • @sidemensClips
    @sidemensClips 5 років тому +12

    R.i.p Jane Austen lots of love to her

  • @mahmaedkhaled4918
    @mahmaedkhaled4918 5 років тому +7

    A great narrator for a great work.🦋🌺

  • @GamingChannel-nb6wm
    @GamingChannel-nb6wm 5 років тому +17

    Anyone else watching in 2018?

  • @TedaR
    @TedaR 4 роки тому +9

    An appropriate accent for the material. Rare for Librivox! TY to the reader, (whose name I dont dare try to spell) for volunteering.

    • @SB-548
      @SB-548 9 місяців тому +2

      I agree! I might find a book written by a southerner, and I might volunteer. If I could handle the criticism! Lol

  • @evedonnelly-wm8xe
    @evedonnelly-wm8xe 11 місяців тому +3

    Greatly narrated…Just the correct speed to relax to of an evening 😊

  • @crib4046
    @crib4046 3 роки тому +45

    I wish Karen Savage would read this.

    • @janicebillington2633
      @janicebillington2633 2 роки тому +12

      After listening to Karen Savage galloping through Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion, this narrator is a very welcome change.

    • @gixmonster
      @gixmonster Рік тому +4

      @@janicebillington2633 I actually slow the speed down in the UA-cam settings if Karen Savage is reading. It's like she thinks it's a race.

    • @niamhmacmahon3670
      @niamhmacmahon3670 6 місяців тому +1

      That's just rude

    • @ronbedal6097
      @ronbedal6097 19 днів тому

      I like this narrator because her pacing varies and gives more nuance to the story

  • @Nina5144
    @Nina5144 2 роки тому +1

    I love the narrator

  • @caroltaylor3414
    @caroltaylor3414 5 років тому +7

    Nooooooooooo...... why didn't she finish it?!!!!!!! It's only aroused our appetite without bedding it back down!

    • @ernestinefoster4217
      @ernestinefoster4217 4 роки тому +4

      She died before she could

    • @deeksharajput126
      @deeksharajput126 4 роки тому

      @@ernestinefoster4217 means?

    • @lillieflower372
      @lillieflower372 4 роки тому +4

      @@deeksharajput126 means that the book was never finished so we'll never get the end? LOL

    • @waypay1
      @waypay1 2 роки тому

      Gopher, Everett?😂

  • @dawnwalker6172
    @dawnwalker6172 5 років тому +2

    thumbs up

  • @poetryjones7946
    @poetryjones7946 7 років тому +11

    Good reader!

    • @afaf233
      @afaf233 7 років тому +3

      i wish they show the text as well

  • @janeaustencentre
    @janeaustencentre 5 років тому +3

    Also free to read: www.janeausten.co.uk/the-watsons/

  • @bookmouse2719
    @bookmouse2719 Рік тому

    So, who do you think Emma would end up with?

  • @jumachangoma3559
    @jumachangoma3559 9 років тому +6

    great but the volume though....too low

  • @joannesmith9486
    @joannesmith9486 2 роки тому +1

    “ … only a surgeon!”. Really??

    • @josephinemarchnfanymagalar7601
      @josephinemarchnfanymagalar7601 Рік тому +1

      At 19th century, it was a dangerous job because there was so little hygiene information and anatomic information. So many patient died at that time, and surgeons got sick because of lack of hygiene.
      Of course if they were at this century, they wanna take him to their daughter as soon as possible. 😂

  • @arthurmccarron4379
    @arthurmccarron4379 5 місяців тому

    Wow

  • @eeba4538
    @eeba4538 2 роки тому

    Timestamp 50

  • @shipaskof8371
    @shipaskof8371 Рік тому

    There are more names than charlotte emma musgrave charles catherine eleanor. Why she reuses i dont know

  • @ara6mir59
    @ara6mir59 Рік тому

    👍✌️💐💚

  • @peggychapman-miller4204
    @peggychapman-miller4204 2 роки тому

    Ah

  • @fionadefranco1276
    @fionadefranco1276 3 роки тому +6

    Appreciate the effort, but dull. No inflexion of tone, but not as bad as Alice Savage. I think that's the name anyway. Apologies to her horde of admirers!

    • @talghow-i2326
      @talghow-i2326 2 роки тому +1

      The reading is always directed by a director I don't know if that is true to this production. The reader is like an actor to be directed as the 'frount man'

    • @rosamariamendoza1466
      @rosamariamendoza1466 2 роки тому +7

      Karen Savage is a great reader!🥰

    • @theclumsyprepper
      @theclumsyprepper 3 місяці тому

      I agree.

  • @user-jl8mp6lg4i
    @user-jl8mp6lg4i Місяць тому

    45min…

  • @tomnyskull
    @tomnyskull 5 місяців тому

    1 13

  • @tomnyskull
    @tomnyskull 6 місяців тому

    Marcapaginas! 16 32

  • @shipaskof8371
    @shipaskof8371 Рік тому +2

    Her voice is insufferable. My 3rd attempt to listen to her.

  • @javamann1000
    @javamann1000 7 років тому +14

    All Librivox recordings are a real drag.
    The repetition of all the whole details at every chapter!!!!!!!!!

    • @motorcop505
      @motorcop505 7 років тому +19

      javamann1000 Seriously? Of all the things you have to be thankful for with Librivox's thousands of free audiobooks, you have to whine about their announcement at the beginning that the recording is from Librivox.org, the narrator's name, and the fact that all of their recordings are in the public domain - information that typically lasts less than 30 seconds! Are you fucking kidding me? GTFO! You are too much if a selfish piece of shit if you can't handle such a simple announcement, especially since it gives the reader an opportunity to give his or her name so as to get credit for their FREE/PRO BONO performance! You are so typical of the effete, spoiled, stupid, pussified milleneals of today. Just GTFO. What a total dickhead you are.

    • @katharinedavis4947
      @katharinedavis4947 4 роки тому +1

      Javamann. I agree , its not the narrators fault , just the organisation. Its reasonable to do it once , not every chapter. Its weird. One recording i gave up on because it was so irritating.K

  • @nellynelly8203
    @nellynelly8203 4 місяці тому +1

    terrible mess made of the reading of a wonderful English novel

  • @Dawghome
    @Dawghome 6 років тому +16

    I don't like the narrator, she sounds kind of bored.

    • @sidemensClips
      @sidemensClips 5 років тому +1

      Ha lol

    • @annegretheklaussen2977
      @annegretheklaussen2977 4 роки тому +1

      I agree. It makes me be bored aswell. Pity

    • @lorrainethomson8994
      @lorrainethomson8994 3 роки тому +2

      Do Librivox actually have their narrators audition?
      Terrible to listen to, which is the general way with Librivox
      What a waste of time
      Because the speech impediment, mainly pronouncing R as W, completely makes the narrators speech difficult to understand
      Also very, very boring tone
      You tried
      So respect for that

    • @margaretpiddock455
      @margaretpiddock455 3 роки тому +1

      Dull....depressingi is the word i would use. You can see that its jane Austens work, but there was no joy or character in the reading. Must try it again with a different narrator, hope it puts a smile on my face.

  • @DZ48994
    @DZ48994 4 роки тому +4

    Voice is awful

  • @profd65
    @profd65 5 років тому +3

    This is crap. Never would have guessed it's Jane Austen, although it does have the upcoming social function that is endlessly blabbed about--obligatory in a Jane Austen novel.

  • @wordscaninspire114
    @wordscaninspire114 3 роки тому +1

    Nice to find another reading, as well as my own. Love Jane Austen

    • @cousinsister69
      @cousinsister69 3 роки тому

      Couldn't find yours but would like to. I subbed yr channel tho. From Adelaide down under! 👇💜🙃