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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Rosamund Pike on Narrating 'Pride and Prejudice' [Watch (HLS stream): Rosamund Pike on Narrating 'Pride and Prejudice'](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wTuEpkAa.m3u8) (2:54)  _Published 2015-12-01. The actress voices a new audiobook of the classic novel_ --- Jul 27, 2023 7:15 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Best Selling YA Novels MONEY](/video/3gxeFyDj/) ### Best Selling YA Novels MONEY [Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Trailer](/video/LMqFbLwZ/) ### Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Trailer [Colin Firth: The 'Pride and Prejudice' Shirt is a Fake](/video/MGCooK5k/) ### Colin Firth: The 'Pride and Prejudice' Shirt is a Fake --- ## Transcript Hello. I'm Rosamund Pike and I'm reading Pride and Prejudice for audible. [ MUSIC ] It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. It's an extraordinary book, Pride and Prejudice, because it It gives people in surprising ways a huge amount of joy. It's witty and it's modern and I think that's the other thing that you realize about Jaden [ INAUDIBLE ] how modern Elizabeth Bennett is. I think Elizabeth Bennett is a phenomenal character. Because she has this spirit, and she has this disregard for convention, and she has a wonderful ability to say it like it is. You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you had you behaved in a more gentleman- like manner. I think when you're listening to something the words go into your head in a very unique way and you do retain a lot of a novel that you've heard, just as much as you do when you've read it. Reading gives you one experience but listening gives you a different one and makes you start to notice and respond to different things and perhaps it gives you a perspective that you wouldn't necessarily have thought of. An audiobook gives you something, because it suggests voices to you, but what you're picturing is still all your own. I hope people enjoy what I've done with it and people find my characterizations convincing. I'm constantly listening, and I'll get out my iPhone and make a recording of someone that I think might have some characteristic that's useful for a character. I have a sort of strange system of notation that I've developed over time. Of indicating to me where the thoughts are going so my script for doing these is covered in sort of arrows and directions and it's funny it wouldn't make sense to anybody else, but I can follow it. Have you heard that Neverfield park it lit at last. Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. But it is, returned she for Mrs. Long has just been here and she told me all about it. Pride and Prejudice will always resonate with people because she's dealing with a theme, for a start, that's so universal, which is falling in love for the first time. Every expectation you think you have of this novel will probably be refuted by a really close reading of it. Somehow, the specificity with which she talks about her world Will interest you many many generations further on and I think that's true about any writer. Any writer who draws you into a world with total specificity will always capture you if they really talk from the heart. It's been so rewarding doing Jane Austin, it's extended My world, or opened it up in a new and exciting way. 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