Pride and Prejudice

This audiobook collection features six of Jane Austen's popular works and caught my attention on Audible.ca because it was a free download. 

Free audiobooks? Yes please!

So I snapped it up and chose to listen to Pride and Prejudice, a book I had read years ago and wanted to get reacquainted with again.

Narrated by Claire Foy (she of The Crown fame), this audiobook was more of a dramatized audio theatre than a standard audiobook. There were various actors performing as well as the addition of background sounds and murmured voices in the background etc. But I didn't love the hollow sound of this production and thought the sound effects were more distracting than beneficial to the story. Fortunately, it didn't take long to get used to this format and I soon fell into the lives, loves and wittiness of the Bennett family.

The other books within this collection are: Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.

My Rating: 4 stars

Author: Jane Austen

Genre: Classic

Type and Source: Unabridged eAudiobook, personal copy from Audible.ca

Publisher: Audible Originals

First Published: Nov 2020

Run Time: 45 hours (entire collection)

Narrator: Claire Foy

Opening Lines: It is a truth universally acknowledged, 

that a single man in possession of a good 

fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Book Description from GoodReads: Pride and Prejudice is centred around the Bennet family, their five unmarried daughters and their mother’s desperation for at least one of them to make a wealthy match to save the family from destitution. When Charles Bingley moves into Netherfield, a nearby estate, it seems that Jane, the eldest daughter, may have found her match, but it also introduces our heroine Elizabeth to Bingley’s friend, the aloof Mr Darcy.