Pride and Prejudice - Down To Sleep #15

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🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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A reading of "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen "An 1813 romantic novel of manners. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness" Support the podcast on Patreon and join our secret book club, longer episodes + a bonus episode EVERY WEEK (Exclusive readings and complete readings of Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and more) Patreon: https://www.Patreon.com/DownToSleep Website: https://www.DownToSleepPodcast.com Looking for FREE audio books or physical books to add to your collection? Use the links below and support the podcast! Get Free Audio Books on Amazon USA Get Free Audio Books on Amazon UK Buy books on AMAZON USA Buy books on Amazon UK Down To Sleep is a podcast to fall asleep to. Turn on & drift off. If you need help sleeping or just want to relax listening to classic tales as bedtime stories. Come gently nod off to sleep with me, a new episode every Monday. You can listen on Spotify, Google, Apple, and most podcast apps.

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0:00.0	Hello there, and welcome to episode 15 of Down to Sleep, the podcast of softly spoken stories
0:05.9	to help you fall asleep and get a good night's rest. Thank you for joining me tonight. I will be
0:10.2	reading Pride and Prejudice to you. If you would like to support this podcast, you can do so at
0:15.4	patreon.com slash down to sleep, where you'll be rewarded with twice as many episodes and episodes
0:20.7	are twice as long.
0:22.6	This includes continued readings of Alice in Wonderland.
0:25.7	We have finished that one.
0:26.7	We're continuing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and there's exclusive readings as well,
0:30.4	such as the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, short stories by Oscar Wild, and more.
0:36.1	So come and join us on patreon.com slash down to sleep to get everything that this podcast has to offer,
0:42.1	including special thank-keys and goodnight messages at the end of the episode.
0:46.5	The story begins at chapter five tonight as chapters one to four are available on Patreon.
0:52.0	Let's take a nice deep breath, get nice and comfy, and get down to sleep.
0:58.4	Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Chapter 5
1:02.9	Within a short walk of Longbourn lived a family with whom the Bennets were particularly intimate.
1:09.8	Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in
1:12.2	Merriton, where he had made a tolerable fortune, and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address
1:18.1	to the king during his merrily. The distinction had perhaps been felt too strongly. It had given him
1:24.8	a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town,
1:28.6	and in quitting them both he had removed with his family to a house, about a mile from Meriton,
1:34.3	denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance,
1:41.3	and unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.
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