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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
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Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere.
Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. But one day a stranger arrives—cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune—and manages to penetrate into their carefully shielded lives. Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods, resulting in crisis, tragedy, and the revelation of a terrible secret.
Jackson’s novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more—like some of her other fictions—as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normalcy itself.
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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.... The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives - presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.
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Easily the best audiobook I have ever heard!
- By Kid at Heart on 11-10-18
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The Girl in the Locked Room
- A Ghost Story
- By: Mary Downing Hahn
- Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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Jules' family moves into an old abandoned house. Her parents love it, but she's frightened and feels a sense of foreboding. When she sees a pale face in an upstairs window, she can't stop wondering about the eerie presence on the top floor - in a room with a locked door. Her fear replaced by fascination, Jules becomes determined to make contact with the mysterious figure and to unlock the door. Past and present intersect as she and her ghostly friend discover the fate of the family who lived in the house all those many years ago.
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Excellent Narrator!
- By Seth Adam Smith on 05-02-20
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I Capture the Castle
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In this coming of age story, Dodie Smith introduces the visionary and eccentric character of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain. The youngest daughter in a family of impoverished artists, it is her imagination and writing that takes us away from the ramshackle old English castle where they live, and towards an intriguing tale of husband-hunting and light-hearted sibling rivalry.
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Well, that was a surprise
- By Matthew on 12-16-13
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The Lark
- By: E. Nesbit
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Orphaned cousins Jane and Lucilla, both 19, receive the exciting news that their guardian is at last allowing them to leave boarding school. But their rosy future is thwarted when they find he has made some bad investments and fled, leaving them with a cottage in the English countryside and a modest bank account.
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It has that wonderful charm of the tales of old...
- By Lidia Chymkowska on 10-03-18
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The Blind Assassin
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For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as never before, creating a novel that is entertaining and profoundly serious. The novel opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister drove a car off the bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister Laura's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental.
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Good book, TERRIBLE audio!
- By Whitney on 04-27-09
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A Charmed Life
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Cat doesn't mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in Chrestomanci Castle. Frustrated that the witches of the castle refuse to acknowledge her talents, Gwendolen conjures up a scheme that could throw whole worlds out of whack.
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A Delightful Read!
- By Amazon Customer on 09-27-05
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The Probable Future
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Women of the Sparrow family have unusual gifts. Elinor can detect falsehood. Her daughter, Jenny, can see people's dreams when they sleep. Granddaughter Stella has a mental window to the future - a future that she might not want to see.
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Nice, gentle story for when you feel bad.
- By Anonymous User on 05-28-17
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Gone with the Wind
- By: Margaret Mitchell
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28 million copies have been sold. Here are the characters that have become symbols of passion and desire....
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not to miss audible experience
- By dallas on 12-08-09
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Rush Home Road
- By: Lori Lansens
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
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When a 70-year-old woman finds a five-year-old girl abandoned on her doorstep, she is thrust into a sorrowful past that can only be conquered with the help of the girl who opened her memory - the very girl she is trying to save. This first novel, according to author Jacquelyn Mitchard, is one of "exquisite power, honesty, and conviction...quite nearly without flaws."
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filthy language and violent content
- By Anna on 12-16-11
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The Fairy-Tale Matchmaker
- By: E. D. Baker
- Narrated by: Emily Bauer
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Cory is a young tooth fairy in training who wants to be anything but that, except there's no way the Tooth Fairy Guild or her mother will let that happen. After yet another bad night on the job, Cory quits to explore other things--like babysitting an adventurous Humpty Dumpty, helping Suzy organize seashells by the seashore, and attempting to finally rid the spiders that plague Marjorie Muffet. But it isn't until Marjorie asks Cory to help set her up with a boy that Cory taps into a power she never knew she had.
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Just alright
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By: E. D. Baker
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- Madrid NYC
- 03-12-16
Narrator Especially Good
I'm usually pretty neutral at best about narrators who are not the authors. However, I like this reader particularly for this story. It is a really good match. Enjoy! ....great spooky story too.
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- Calliope
- 07-07-14
How very strange.......
There's a lot of strangeness in this story - strange characters, strange setting, strange history - and it all mixes up nicely into an unsettling and kind of creepy story. Not frightening, just kind of weird and disturbing. It's clear from the set up that the protagonist is suffering from an undisclosed psychological issue - her words and actions are too juvenile for her actual age - but you never really know if it's always been a factor in her life or if it's secondary to the changes she's gone through since the murder of most of her family by poisoning.......She now lives a mostly secluded life in the old family home with her older agoraphobic sister and her wheelchair-bound uncle who survived the poisoning but with a loss of both mental and physical capabilities. Most of the townspeople blame the older sister for the murders, in spite of her legal acquittal, and so the sisters have reacted to the town's shunning and malevolence by withdrawing further and further into their own lives in seclusion, but managing to be content in their own little world. When a distant cousin comes to try and bully them into allowing him to rule the family home and money, it upsets their isolated fantasy world and causes unexpected changes.
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- Rebecca
- 11-15-14
Old fashioned creepy story
This book was originally published in the early 60's and in that context this is a really well written Twilight Zone, Amazing Tales sort of scary story.
I listened to it all the way through in one afternoon and I really enjoyed it. The narrator stays out of the way of story without dazzling.
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- Jessica
- 10-20-17
A Twist
You don't see it coming, but when it happens, you realize it was meant to happen!
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- Brandon Lee McClure
- 11-09-16
recommend!
loved it! good book . we had to read it for class but was to busy to sit down and read, so I got the audio. either way this is a great book!
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- JDB
- 10-24-19
Beautiful and strange.
Beautifully written. A slow, peculiar drama through the eyes of a demented woman who is both childlike and sinister. Predictable in a sense, but I enjoyed the author's style enough and wanted to see how it ended. It ended appropriate to the story although I would have enjoyed a more conclusive finish. Not scary or suspensful but masterful in character detail and I like it!
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- Clintito
- 01-19-18
sad classic
really enjoyed this story.. it's a quick and easy read, about half a day to finish... it's sad and the characters are simply in misery...
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- Morgan H
- 01-29-20
Spooky and Spectacular!
I had read a collection of Shirley Jackson's short storires and The Haunting of Hill House, but this one was new to me and, as an audiobook, a new way to experience her weird stories. By far and away my favorite of hers. The basis of the novel about two sisters and their relationship was fairly ordinary, but like all Jackson's work, was spun into such an odd and unsettling way that I was instantly swept up by it and didn't want it to end. The narration was excellent (although I listened at 1.5 speed) and brought the characters to life. I would give it 6 stars if I could.
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- Kate Comings
- 10-10-19
An old favorite of mine.
I discovered this book so long ago, I must have been Merricat's age. I have come back to it many times, but this is the first time I've heard it read out loud. The narrator was delightful.
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- Debbie Webster
- 04-28-18
Almost to soft
While I liked the book itself the readers voice was so soft and the cadence so steady I almost fell asleep. It put me in a kind of lull. So not sure if I would listen to another book read by her.
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