If you've never read Austen, this is a great start. It's the story of P&P from the servants' perspectives, which I honestly enjoy more because it adds life to the story from beyond the gentry level of the Bennets. I also recommend listening or reading Jo Baker's Longbourn along with it. I recommend this listen if you want a good Audible version of the story. Austen's works can be enjoyed for their story and/or for the bigger things she's saying about marriage and love in her time. So if you don't agree with the things mentioned, don't worry about it spoiling things for you.

I will also say about the intro (purposely at the end of the story so not to spoil plot points) that this is a scholarly examination of the themes in the story. And of course, Elizabeth is lively compared to her sisters, which is why her father thinks she has a bit more sense than them. I can see why the relationship between Darcy and Elizabeth is so memorable, as are the social and economic background behind the marriage market (Mrs. But this Audible book reminded me of why this book is so beloved. Having read the story in high school as my first intro to Austen and having listened to almost all the other Audible versions of her works (minus Emma and Northanger Abbey), this was not my first time with an Austen novel. She does, luckily, put the right amount of haughtiness into Lady Catherine and I liked her voicing of Charlotte Lucas, whom I was not as interested in before but I like better now after this version. Jane can sometimes sound like Elizabeth or Mr. However, I do wish she'd varied her readings of some of the characters more. Indira Varma, thankfully, makes her sound less shrieky and more like a person actually would. That turned me off of listening to several versions, simply because I can't imagine hearing the whole story that way. Like both its predecessor and Northanger Abbey, it was written at Steventon Rectory.Most renditions of P&P have the narrators give a very annoying voice to Mrs. Egerton of the Military Library, Whitehall, who had brought out Sense and Sensibility. Following revisions it was published on 28 January 1813 by the same Mr. Austen’s characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England. Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Its manuscript was first written between 17, and was initially called First Impressions, but was never published under that title. Pride and Prejudice delightfully captures the affectations and rivalries of class-conscious English families in an age when status and security for women hung entirely on matrimonial ambitions. Download cover art Download CD case insert Pride and Prejudice

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