Pride and Prejudice

Name: Pride and Prejudice
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Author: Jane Austen
ISBN: 9781491586112

Author: Jane Austen

Narrator: Sharon Williams

Unabridged: 10 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: The Classic Collection

Published: 02/17/2015

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Top 5 Finalist on PBS's The Great American Read in 2018Jane Austen’s insightful and sometimes wry Pride and Prejudice provides today’s listeners with a fascinating look into the British society during the nineteenth century.This delightful novel of manners follows the Bennets, a family of five daughters and humble fortune. With her savory wit and satire, Jane Austen unveils the lives of the Bennet sisters as they endeavor to find their place in society—some taking a long road to get there. The arrival of Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy turn their pastoral lives upside down, and listeners will take in the story with rapt attention, eager to discover if Elizabeth, cured of her prejudice, and Mr. Darcy, cured of his pride, will finally fall into each other’s arms.This novel is part of Brilliance Audio’s extensive Classic Collection, bringing you timeless masterpieces that you and your family are sure to love.

About Jane Austen

Jane Austen’s (1775-1817) works have enjoyed a renewed popularity in the last year with the film release of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility - both critically acclaimed. Sir Walter Scott said, Jane Austen had “that exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting.”

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tharindu on April 10, 2023

"I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow." Some of my happiest, and most looked-forward-to days of the year are the ones that I reserve for the re-reading of Pride and Prejudice. To quote Austen herself from Sense and Se......more

Goodreads review by Miranda on April 29, 2021

Old books get a bad rap...but do they deserve it? Check out my latest BooktTube Video - all about the fabulous (and not so fabulous) Olde Boies. The Written Review: To summarize: Mister. Darcy. *cue the long, sustained high-pitched squealing* This was truly as glorious as I rememb......more

Goodreads review by emma on August 06, 2024

I am so unqualified to write about this book. I am physically unqualified, because I could write infinite words about how much I love this book, and I type in a weird way that makes my wrists hurt so infinity is simply not going to happen. I am emotionally unqualified, because I lack emotional intelli......more

Goodreads review by Rolls on March 12, 2007

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen started off annoying me and ended up enchanting me. Up until about page one hundred I found this book vexing, frivolous and down right tedious. I now count myself as a convert to the Austen cult. I must confess I have been known to express an antipathy for anythi......more

Goodreads review by MacK on December 03, 2013

Where my massive crush on Jane Austen began: alone, on a hot day in Montana, cursing her name. I had to read it for AP English and I could not see the point. Girls need to marry. Girls can't get married. Girls are sad. Girls get married. Girls are happy. I went to school to half heartedly discuss it a......more