Customer Reviews
Pride and Prejudice - By: Wendy Kitchen, 11 Jul 2008 
I find it very helpful to download the cds to my iPod so I do not have to carry the cdsin the car & it is also very easy to find my place.
I much prefer Juliet Stevenson narratingin the other Austen books but I still enjoyed Pride & Prejudice.
Are the "silly" voices necessary? - By: V. Peck, 23 Aug 2007 
This book is read very pleasantly, with an 'easy to listen to' voice, until the reader comes to the conversations, when,in attempting to portray the different characters, they are given some odd & often strident sounds which are not easy on the ear & are thus rendered expressionless & characterless. Mrs. Bennet is particularly strident & unpleasant, & all the male characters are readin peculiarly uninteresting voices devoid of expression. I have let several of my friends etc. listen to it & I find I cannot even give it away!
I think Jane Austen's work is so good that it does not need this exaggeration & I urge to future readers to let the authors excellent use of words do the talking.
wonderful - By: C. Smith, 20 Apr 2006 being a P&P addict I was delighted to find an unabridged version. After more than 7 hrs of happy car journeys later (plus the last disc twice - I still get thrilled by the final denoument)I am reminded that the 1970s BBC series was the most faithful to the original (and Elizabeth Garvie was the most perfect Elizabeth) without the awful 1990s version Alison Steadman as Mrs Bennett (she's supposed to be indiscreet, embarrassing & irritating, not a shrieking outrageous clown by way of comic relief).
I thought Emilia Fox did a good job with different voices.
Pride and Prejudice, read by Emilia Fox - By: , 10 Mar 2006 
I have read Pride & Prejudice a few times, & have a deep & abiding affection for it. So, rather than a heavily abridged version I investedin this fairly complete audio edition.
It is OK, but slightly lacklustre. I thought Emilia Fox's narrative voice was very nice, but her character voices are pretty variable, &in particular the men sound slightly comical with a rather panto-like lowering of her voice.
I have listed to many audio books, so I reckon I am a bit of a doyen, & against the general standard I thought this reading was OK, but nothing special.
