--- title: Exclusive: Rosamund Pike Narrates 'Pride and Prejudice' description: The actress voices a new audiobook canonical: https://time.com/4131058/exclusive-rosamund-pike-narrates-pride-and-prejudice/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-02T16:06:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:00:16.691Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Exclusive: Rosamund Pike Narrates 'Pride and Prejudice' og:description: The actress voices a new audiobook og:url: https://time.com/4131058/exclusive-rosamund-pike-narrates-pride-and-prejudice/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295949346795782e/69887343524fc0a242df5b35/pride-and-prejudice_2_2015.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Pride and Prejudice_2_2015 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Exclusive: Rosamund Pike Narrates 'Pride and Prejudice' twitter:description: The actress voices a new audiobook twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295949346795782e/69887343524fc0a242df5b35/pride-and-prejudice_2_2015.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Exclusive: Rosamund Pike Narrates _Pride and Prejudice_ by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 2, 2015 4:06 PM UTC  Audible by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 2, 2015 4:06 PM UTC It’s one of the most famous opening lines in literature, and Rosamund Pike does it justice: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” The actress — who played Jane Bennet in the 2005 film version of _Pride and Prejudice_ — is the narrator of a new audiobook version from [Audible](http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/Pride-and-Prejudice-Audiobook/B016LN23CC?source%5Fcode=AUDORWS1105159FGT), out Dec. 8\. “It’s an extraordinary book,” she says in an interview for Audible, “because it gives people, in surprising ways, a huge amount of joy.” Hear Pike read the opening passage of the classic novel below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4131058/exclusive-rosamund-pike-narrates-pride-and-prejudice/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4131058/exclusive-rosamund-pike-narrates-pride-and-prejudice/"},"headline":"Exclusive: Rosamund Pike Narrates Pride and Prejudice","datePublished":"2015-12-02T16:06:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:00:16.691Z","description":"The actress voices a new audiobook","url":"https://time.com/4131058/exclusive-rosamund-pike-narrates-pride-and-prejudice/","keywords":["Books","entertainment"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295949346795782e/69887343524fc0a242df5b35/pride-and-prejudice_2_2015.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt295949346795782e/69887343524fc0a242df5b35/pride-and-prejudice_2_2015.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Pride and Prejudice_2_2015","caption":"","creditText":"Audible","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4131058/exclusive-rosamund-pike-narrates-pride-and-prejudice/","name":"Exclusive: Rosamund Pike Narrates Pride and Prejudice"}}]}] ```