Pride and Prejudice
Classic Fiction · No. 7 — The cleverest girl in England meets the proudest man.
- Classic Fiction
- 44 min
- Ages 15–99
- 7 chapters
About this audiobook
When rich Mr. Bingley rents Netherfield, Mrs. Bennet sees husbands for her five daughters; her second daughter Elizabeth sees a comedy — especially in Bingley's proud friend Mr. Darcy, who slights her at a ball and is repaid with two hundred pages of brilliant mockery. Between the charming liar Wickham, the absurd Mr. Collins, a disastrous first proposal, and one letter that turns Elizabeth's certainties inside out, Austen's masterpiece watches two intelligent people discover that his pride and her prejudice were both wrong about almost everything — and that admitting it is how real love starts.
Why it's worth a listen
The clever, quick-tongued Elizabeth Bennet meets the proud Mr. Darcy, decides she cannot stand him, and spends the wittiest two hundred pages in English literature discovering how wrong they both were. It is the funniest book in the series — sparkling with ridiculous relatives and the worst marriage proposal ever made — and the most satisfying to watch come right. It asks how first impressions can fool even the cleverest people.
A question to keep
How can first impressions fool even the cleverest people?
Chapters
- The Great Husband Hunt
- Of Clergymen and Redcoats
- Winter Cold and a Terrible Proposal
- The Truth in Black and White
- Pemberley and the Runaway
- Love Conquers All
- A Question to Keep