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Meet the Book
JANE AUSTEN
Volume Two ended with Mr. Darcy’s letter, and Elizabeth’s opinions quietly turning. Volume Three takes her into Derbyshire with her aunt and uncle Gardiner — to Pemberley itself, the great house of the man she refused, who is not expected home. On its lawns, and before his portrait, she hears him described by those who know him best, and begins to see him truly. Then, a few miles away at Lambton, come Jane’s letters.
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DISCLAIMER & SOURCE — This book speaks in the words of Jane Austen. It presents chapters 43 to 50 of “Pride and Prejudice” — the first half of Volume Three, the third volume as the novel was first published in London in 1813 — complete and unaltered, every word as she wrote it. (Austen’s third volume is the longest of her three; this hologram edition carries it in two parts. This is the first part; the second — chapters 51 to 61, ending with the weddings — follows as Volume Four in this line.) Jane Austen (1775–1817) has been dead more than two hundred years, and her novel is public domain everywhere: free to all. The pictures are the illustrations drawn by Hugh Thomson for the celebrated “Peacock Edition” of 1894 (George Allen, London), likewise public domain, gathered from the open collections named in the colophon. The words and the pictures are public domain; what is new, and ours, is the hologram: this holographic talking edition is © ai10forever 2026, Editor: Franklin Langston. The narration is a synthesized woman’s voice created for this edition — Jane Austen herself, in spirit, performs the reading of her own public-domain text. This is an independent production of ai10forever, not affiliated with or endorsed by any Austen estate, society, or publisher.
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From the Middle — The Disastrous Letter
JANE AUSTEN
Elizabeth has been happy at Lambton, a few miles from Pemberley, when Jane’s letters arrive together — the last of them written after an express from Colonel Forster: Lydia, the youngest and wildest of the Bennet girls, has run away with Mr. Wickham. There is not an instant to lose. Elizabeth runs for her uncle, the visit dissolves, and the flight home begins — just as Mr. Darcy, calling at the inn, finds her in the first shock of the news.
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What's Inside
- Volume Three, complete and unaltered — chapters 43 to 50 of Pride and Prejudice: 22,680 words, every word as she wrote it. Austen’s own third volume (1813) is the longest of her three, so this talking edition carries it in two parts — this is the first; Volume Four follows with chapters 51 to 61, the weddings and THE END, and the novel stands complete. (Volumes One and Two stand before it in this line.)
- 2 hours and 13 minutes of narration — Jane Austen herself stands at the corner of the stage and tells her own love story, chapter by chapter, across 9 listening chapters.
- The pictures of the famous Peacock Edition — all 12 of Volume Three’s drawings by Hugh Thomson (1894), woven through the reading room and gathered in a gallery, with Jane’s own portraits: the 1870 engraving, and her sister Cassandra’s watercolor of 1810, the only portrait of her face painted in her lifetime.
- Music of her own world under the voice — Muzio Clementi’s Sonatina Op. 36 No. 1 (1797), the piano music of Austen’s drawing rooms, played softly beneath the narration.
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The text of this book is public domain everywhere: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (London, 1813), chapters 43 to 50 — the first half of her Volume Three — reproduced exactly as published. Hugh Thomson’s illustrations (Peacock Edition, George Allen, 1894) and both portraits are likewise public domain. The Clementi composition (1797) is public domain and the recording used was released into the public domain. The narration is a synthesized woman’s voice created for this edition. The hologram edition — the talking stage, the narration, the assembly — is © ai10forever 2026 · Editor: Franklin Langston. An independent production, not affiliated with or endorsed by any Austen estate, society, or publisher.
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