List $22.98

Written by Jane Austen - Audio book performed by Jenny Agutter with music composed by Krommer, Hummel, and Carulli

Abridged Fiction - 3 COMPACT DISCS - 3.7 hours

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks

Listen to an audio clip

Selected as one of 2001’s Best Audiobooks by the Boston Sunday Globe and the Los Angeles Times.

The printed version of this title was selected by The New York Review of Books' 'Reader's Catalog' as one of the 40,000+ Best Books in Print!

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." So opens this famous novel which has become Jane Austen's best loved and best known work. It was in this book that all Jane Austen's talents combined to create not only the most wonderful love story, but dialogue that sparkles with wit and irony, an ingenious and compelling plot and some of the most unforgettable characters ever created.

Jenny Agutter rose to fame as a child in the film of E. Nesbit's The Railway Children. Her film credits have included The Eagle Has Landed, Equus and An American Werewolf in London. She has been equally active in the theatre in varied roles for the RSC, Royal National Theatre and on Broadway. Her recent TV credits include The Buccaneers, Heartbeat and the Channel 4 series And The Beat Goes On.