Andrew
Overall
Not for me
Not for me.
I couldn't make it though the whole book. I'm just not one for "I'm better than you" kind of thing.
Pride and Prejudice
By
Jane Austen
Read by
Carolyn Seymour
Release:
01/21/2011
Release:
02/01/2011
Release:
02/01/2011
Runtime:
11h 30m
Runtime:
11h 30m
Runtime:
11h 30m
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“There is a truth of painting in her writings which always delights me.”
Sir Walter Scott
The provincial Bennet family, home to five unmarried daughters, is turned upside down when a wealthy bachelor takes up a house nearby.
Mr. Bingley enhances his instant popularity by hosting a ball and taking an interest in the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane. Meanwhile, Mr. Darcy, Bingley's even wealthier friend, makes himself equally unpopular by his aloof disdain of country manners. Yet he is drawn in spite of himself to the spirited and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet, who proves to be his match in both wit and pride. Their sparkling repartee is a splendid performance of civilized sparring infused with unacknowledged romantic tension.
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. Austen's characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.
It is also the source of some of the most memorable characters ever written, from the fatuous Mr. Collins, whose proposal to Elizabeth is one of the finest comic passages in English literature, to the beloved heroine Elizabeth, whom the author herself deemed "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print."
Release:
2011-01-21
2011-02-01
2011-02-01
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
11h 30m
11h 30m
11h 30m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
0.75 lb
0.5 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781470800611
9781441774682
9781441774699
Publisher:
Craig Black
Craig Black
Craig Black
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Double07Overall Liked it
Very enjoyable reading
I found the reading, or might I say, the listening of this book to be very enjoyable. While I was in college, I was privileged to have taken a class which required us to read this book. Hearing this story, this time, through audio, brought back memories of that class which were very pleasant. The audio was very well expressed in the right places and I would strongly urge anyone interested in a"throw-back" novel to give Jane Austen a chance. She is one of the best female authors of our time.
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Jackie
Every bit as tedious as I remembered it
Slogging through the manners and social conventions of the time makes for dull reading, especially in the first half of the book. The narration was outstanding and made it a little easier to bear.
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isabella bOverall Liked it
will read again
the classic love story never gets old. I have read this books so many times I have lost cont and watched the movie conntless times as well
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