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Stream the great English romances free — Jane Austen's comedies of manners and the Brontë sisters' fiercer, stranger novels of love and independence. Seven complete books, narrated by natural voices, playing instantly in your browser. No signup, no ads, free forever.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy misjudge each other completely - the most beloved opening line in English fiction, and the wittiest courtship ever written. ▶ Listen Free
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
A plain, penniless governess refuses to be anybody's possession. Thornfield Hall holds a secret behind a locked door on the third floor. ▶ Listen Free
Emma by Jane Austen
Emma
Jane Austen
Handsome, clever and rich, Emma Woodhouse meddles in everyone's romance but her own - and is wrong about very nearly all of it. ▶ Listen Free
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Persuasion
Jane Austen
Anne Elliot was talked out of marrying the man she loved. Eight years later he walks back into the room. Austen's last and most autumnal novel. ▶ Listen Free
Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Villette
Charlotte Brontë
Lucy Snowe takes a teaching post in a foreign city and tells you almost nothing about herself. Brontë's strangest and most modern book. ▶ Listen Free
Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
Shirley
Charlotte Brontë
Yorkshire, 1812: machine-breaking, a mill on the brink, and two women - one an heiress, one with nothing - refusing the futures chosen for them. ▶ Listen Free
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
The Professor
Charlotte Brontë
Brontë's first novel, published only after her death. An Englishman teaching in Brussels falls for a quiet, stubborn lace-mender. ▶ Listen Free

About These Novels

Jane Austen published six novels between 1811 and 1817, three of them here. She wrote about a narrow world — a few families in a country village — and found everything in it. Pride and Prejudice (1813) is the one everybody knows; Emma (1815) is the funniest; Persuasion (1817), published after her death, is the one people come back to when they are older.

Charlotte Brontë wrote something rougher and stranger. Jane Eyre (1847) shocked its first readers by letting a poor, plain woman insist on her own worth. Shirley (1849) sets two women against the machine-breaking riots of 1812. Villette (1853) is her masterpiece and her least comfortable book, narrated by a woman who withholds the truth from the reader. The Professor, written first, was published only in 1857, after she had died.

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