17 MAR 2024 · Love and Freindship (Dramatic Reading)by https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Jane+Austen%22 Publication date https://archive.org/search.php?query=date:2023-06-27Topics https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22librivox%22, https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22audiobooks%22, https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22parody%22, https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22juvenilia%22, https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22romance+novel%22Language https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28language%3Aeng+OR+language%3A%22English%22%29 https://librivox.org/ recording of Love and Freindship by Jane Austen. Read in English. Love and Freindship [sic] is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was fourteen years old. Although the novels Austen became known for were not published until she was in her thirties, she was an active writer from the age of twelve, frequently composing epistolary works such as Love and Freindship. Austen eventually compiled 29 of her early writings in three notebooks that became known as the Juvenilia and that she called “Volume the First”, “Volume the Second”, and “Volume the Third”, including Love and Freindship in “Volume the Second”. Love and Freindship is set contemporaneously to Austen’s writing and consists of a series of fifteen letters, most of which are written from the perspective of the protagonist, Laura, who recounts her extraordinary personal history to her friend Isabel’s daughter. The novel satirizes sentimental novels, which were a popular genre at the time. Austen’s early works are frequently published with the original spelling errors unaltered, a practice that is particularly conspicuous in the case of Love and Freindship because of the spelling error in the title. Austen dedicated this novelette to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, who is believed by literary critics to have inspired multiple characters in Austen’s writings, including the titular character in the novel Lady Susan. In 2016, Lady Susan was adapted into a film that borrowed the title Love & Friendship, albeit with the spelling corrected. - Summary by David Purdy

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18 MAR 2024 · www.sdelamare.blogspot.com First Loveby https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Ivan+Turgenev+trans.+Constance+Garnett%22 Publication date https://archive.org/search.php?query=date:2009-05-09Usage http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/Topics https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22librivox%22, https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22audiobook%22, https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22literature%22, https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22love%22, https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22romance%22, https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22novella%22Language https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28language%3Aeng+OR+language%3A%22English%22%29 http://librivox.org/ recording of First Love, by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Constance Garnett. Read by Martin Geeson. The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. First Love is given its originality and poignancy by Turgenev's mastery of the piercing turning-point (akin to Joyce's "epiphanies") that transforms the character's whole being, making a tragic outcome inevitable. Even the nature symbolism is rescued from triteness by lovely poetic similes - e.g. "but at that point my attention was arrested by the appearance of a speckled woodpecker who busily climbed up the slender stem of a birch-tree and peeped out uneasily from behind it, first to the right, then to the left, like a musician behind the bass-viol." (Summary by Martin Geeson)

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19 MAR 2024 · www.sdelamare.blogspot.com Tara is called to the office to meet someone from MI5 head office. She expects good news but is in for a shock.

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