Pride and Prejudice [Audible Studios]

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Lindsay Duncan

Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

"His perfect indifference, and your pointed dislike, make it so delightfully absurd!"

Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down. Pride encounters prejudice, upward-mobility confronts social disdain, and quick-wittedness challenges sagacity, as misconceptions and hasty judgements lead to heartache and scandal, but eventually to true understanding, self-knowledge, and love. In this supremely satisfying story, Jane Austen balances comedy with seriousness, and witty observation with profound insight. If Elizabeth Bennet returns again and again to her letter from Mr Darcy, readers of the novel are drawn even more irresistibly by its captivating wisdom.

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Excellent

The reader really brings this book to life and has so much enhanced my enjoyment of it. The way she changes her voice to reflect the characters in dialogue is amazingly well done.

Excellent

I fell in love with this book from the beginning...It was funny and yet serious but shows just how love can pan out...I think everyone should read this...

Relationships

We can be so enthralled with our own perspective of things that we cannot hear another. Austen's lesson is on learning to open up and recognize that there is somebody else around...not just «me». This is a very relevant book on relationships...and it reflects our society: ego.com.

Can't believe I waited so long...

I loved this book. The reader was fantastic. The story compelling. Highly recommend it. I plan on listening to it again and again.

great stuff

enjoyed it very much
love her work. well read and would recommend to anyone. enjoy

Must read

This is an awesome book! I mean it in every way! Great author, great reader! I mean a must read

Simply outstanding

Lindsay Duncan captures the wit and tone of Austen perfectly. Too much focus lately has been about Jane Austen's novels being romances. However, this reading really brings out the true genius of Austen.

Outstanding. 5 stars just isn't enough.

Frivolity and anticlimatic ending

Very Jane Austen. The sensibility of the main characters is refreshing and they are wonderfully inspiring as their feelings are expressed honestly yet without any negative perceptions. The side characters are a little tiresome. The build up in tension between the main characters is satisfying thoroughly, but the anticlimatic confession of the characters to one another is as disappointing as ever. It's not done as a scene but rather a description and this habit of Austen is very anticlimatic. Overall I enjoyed the book though.

Lovely Listen.

As a fan of classic literature, this was a must for my audible collection. Ms Duncan does a lively job and adds much to the experiance.

Wonderful

I thought it was a very typical love story of different birth, but still so well written and performed that it deserves no less than all the praise I can offer. Heck I just wrote in the same style as the book.