The Audible recording read by Rosamund Pike
The whole novel, read by Rosamund Pike, who played Jane Bennet in the 2005 film.
Much of the comedy is in Austen’s narrator. One actor reading every line lets you hear it.
You take books in by ear, and you want the novel itself in one voice.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Austen’s text, read aloud.
Changes: the page into one voice. Rosamund Pike reads the narration and does every character.
Austen’s text, read by Rosamund Pike, who played Jane Bennet in the 2005 film.
Whose story is it?
Elizabeth’s, and the narrator’s, who gets to be as dry as Austen wrote her.
How much time does it ask?
An Audible Studios recording, ℗ 2015 Audible.
Audible Studios, narrated by Rosamund Pike, ℗ 2015 Audible, Inc.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: Listen — Audible
Borrow it free: Find at your library — WorldCat
More ways into Longbourn: The L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording (1997) · Dario Marianelli’s score for Pride & Prejudice