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Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
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SPECIAL OFFER: Get the full text of this classic novel as an eBook when you purchase the audio. You'll receive an e-mail with a link to download the eBook after your purchase is confirmed. Having the novel in convenient Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format will allow you to read along with the audio, perform a "cover to cover" search for your favorite passages, and more.

Pride and Prejudice captures the affections of class-conscious 18th-century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries. This story of the Bennet family and the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, is told with a wit that author Jane Austen feared might prove "rather too light and bright, and sparkling".

The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. Austen's artistry is also apparent in the delineation of the minor characters: the ill-matched Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, Charles Bingley and his sisters, and particularly the fatuous Mr. Collins, whose proposal to Elizabeth is one of the finest comic passages in English literature.

Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

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Brilliant story and performance!

One of my all time favourite books. Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy are two of the greatest literary characters. The reading is beautiful. Ms. Bailey does a wonderful job. Timeless classic! Epic! Will be listening to it again, undoubtedly.

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The best version of P&P

Excellent all around. The narrator is clear and differentiates between characters without being silly. Highly recommend.

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Self confident heroine holds out for a man that appreciates her

Josephine Bailey makes Jane Austen's complex vocabulary and sentence structure a more comfortable listen.
Liked that the story had many characters and narrator did well with them all.
Slow to get into but picked up after she receives her first proposal.

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