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Oscar-nominee Rosamund Pike brings to life Jane Austen's best-loved tale of love, marriage and society in class-conscious Georgian England.
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction
set among the gentry have earned her a place as one of the most
widely read and most beloved writers in English literature.
Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her
family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She
wrote from a young age and Pride and Prejudice was begun when she
was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First
Impressions. It was initially rejected by the publisher she
submitted it to and eventually published in 1813 after much
revision.
All four of her novels published in her lifetime - Sense and
Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma - were
published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18 July 1817. Northanger
Abbey and Persuasion were both published posthumously in 1817.
Rosamund Pike is an English actress who began her acting career in
stage productions such as Romeo and Juliet and Skylight. Following
her breakthrough performance as Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die
Another Day, she won the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for
The Libertine and portrayed Jane Bennet in Pride & Prejudice. In
2014, her performance in the psychological thriller film Gone Girl
was met with widespread critical acclaim and she was awarded the
Saturn Award for Best Actress and was nominated for a number of
awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actress.
'British actress Rosamund Pike is the perfect choice to narrate
this novel of manners, and listening to her voice each of the
iconic characters is great fun ... Austen's many devotees will
savor this first-rate version of her charming novel.'
*AudioFile Magazine*
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