Details:
- author: Jane Austen
- full title: Pride and Prejudice
- narrator: Adjoa Andoh
- genre: classics, women's fiction, historical fiction
- topics: #romance, #family, #marriage
- publisher: Saga Egmont Audio
- publish date: 22.02.2022
- timing: 12:33:00
My Rating of the Audiobook:
- content: 💙💙💙💙
- narration: 💙💙💙💙
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Excerpt from the Book:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
My Thoughts:
Pride and Prejudice is one of those classics I wanted to read for a long time but never started. I rarely read or enjoy typical romance novels, only those somehow different.
Mr. And Mrs. Bennett have five daughters and no male heir. After Mr. Bennett’s death, they will lose their home and money. So especially Mrs. Bennet is eager to marry her daughters well. That is - to someone with enough money, of course. It is a story of love, family, pride, and prejudice. But more than anything else, for me, this novel is an excellent critique of the upper class of the time and a degrading necessity for a woman to marry well.
This novel was still not quite to my taste. I sometimes felt it was too long. But I enjoyed listening to an audiobook, anyway. For me, it worked better than a book.
The narrator is an excellent Adjoa Andoh. Her interpretation was pretty good, although I would imagine some voices to be different, like Elisabeth’s. But she did well anyway. She had to read a lot of characters, so that was not a simple task.
There are more movie adaptations. I saw Pride & Prejudice, made in 2005 with Keira Knightley as Elisabeth. The story is shorter, but I still think it is a good adaptation.
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