Continuing with my plan to (re)read all of Jane Austen’s completed novels, and I was reminded recently of a delightful “Carte Noire Readers” clip of The Wire’s Dominic West (aka Jimmy McNulty) reading the scene “In which Darcy surprises Elizabeth” from Pride and Prejudice.”
From the Carte Noire Readers website* (from Penguin):
For a more seductive coffee break, watch The Carte Noire Readers read your favourite literary love scenes. Begin by choosing a Carte Noire Reader. There’s Joseph Fiennes from Shakespeare in Love, Dominic West from The Wire, Greg Wise from Sense & Sensibility and Dan Stevens from In the Line of Beauty. Then, choose a love scene from a mix of classic, modern and emerging Penguin novels. Relax back with a rich mug of Carte Noire, and when you’re sitting comfortably, then he’ll begin. New readings are released weekly, so make some time every week to catch up on them.
* By the way, have you heard that “website” (one word, no caps) is now the official style of the Associate Press?
