Customer Reviews

Pride and Prejudice (Unabridged Classics in Audio)

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Pride and Prejudice has long been my favorite, and most read, book, so I am completely familiar with the text. I consider it to be the greatest romance ever written and Jane Austen's wry sense of humor shines.

With the caveat that I haven't heard other audio versions of P&P, I thought that Josephine Bailey did a creditable job of reading this classic. Her male voices were less than convincing but P&P mostly has female dialog and those voices were fine. Her narrative voice, flow, and pace were excellent.

A technical note: This Tantor eBook CD includes an MP3 version of the audio book as well as the entire text in Adobe PDF format, so that one can follow the text while listening. It totals about 628 MB in size, nearly all of which is the MP3 audio book. However, the written PDF text on my disc includes a duplicate of Chapter 33, listed as "Chapter 34". After that, the remaining chapters are off by one number. Nevertheless, the entire written text is present and this flaw is not found in the MP3 audio book, where the chapters are entirely correct.

Because of this technical mistake in the PDF text, I gave this eBook only four stars. But for an enjoyable audio version of Jane Austen's masterpiece, this disc is a fine purchase.

I'd like to put in a plug for what I consider the best screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, the 1996 BBC/A&E version:
Pride and Prejudice [Blu-ray]
Pride and Prejudice - The Special Edition (A&E, 1996)
Pride and Prejudice (10th Anniversary Collector's Set) (A&E, 1996)
If there are any fans of P&P who haven't already seen this excellent screen version of the novel, I would highly recommend doing so.

Buyer beware the Cd's don't like to play. Otherwise the audio for this book is excellent I enjoy the reader and her expression very much. I had to return the Cd's and get the MP3 for this and it works much better.