Preview — Pride and Prejudice — The Talking Hologram Book · Volume Two · Narrated by Jane Austen herself

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Meet the Book

A stage plate from the book — a Hugh Thomson illustration

JANE AUSTEN

Jane Austen introduces her second volume Her own voice for this preview — 42 seconds

Now hear the book itself — Chapter 24 The first chapter of Volume Two, from its very first words — “Miss Bingley’s letter arrived, and put an end to doubt.” · 90 seconds

Volume One left Mr. Bingley gone from Netherfield and every hope suspended. Volume Two opens with Miss Bingley’s letter from London: the whole party is settled there for the winter, and Jane Bennet’s hopes are, in her sister’s words, entirely over. But Elizabeth is invited to Hunsford, to visit her friend Charlotte — now Mrs. Collins — in the shadow of Rosings Park, where the formidable Lady Catherine de Bourgh holds court, and where her nephew is expected.

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DISCLAIMER & SOURCE — This book speaks in the words of Jane Austen. It presents Volume Two of “Pride and Prejudice” — chapters 24 to 42, exactly the second volume as the novel was first published in London in 1813 — complete and unaltered, every word as she wrote it. 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 Proposal

A second stage plate from the book — a Hugh Thomson illustration

JANE AUSTEN

Chapter 34 — Mr. Darcy Proposes From the middle of the book — Darcy walks into the Hunsford parsonage, paces the room in silence, and begins: “In vain have I struggled. It will not do…” · 90 seconds of the full narration

Elizabeth has just read Jane’s letters and learned the truth: it was Darcy who separated Bingley from her sister, and Darcy who, she believes, ruined Mr. Wickham. She is alone in the parsonage when he walks in — knowing nothing of her anger — to tell her how ardently he admires and loves her. It is the most famous proposal in fiction, and it goes wrong in every particular. His letter the next morning begins to change everything she thought she knew.

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What's Inside

Pride and Prejudice — The Talking Hologram Book · Volume Two — cover

Volume Two, complete and unaltered — chapters 24 to 42 of Pride and Prejudice, exactly the second volume as Jane Austen first published it in London in 1813: 33,859 words, every word as she wrote it. (Volume One stands before it in this line; Volume Three follows.)
3 hours and 18 minutes of narration — Jane Austen herself stands at the corner of the stage and tells her own love story, chapter by chapter, across 19 listening chapters.
The pictures of the famous Peacock Edition — all 30 of Volume Two’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), Volume Two, 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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