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Northanger Abbey
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Jane Austen, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrated by: Emma Thompson, Douglas Booth, Eleanor Tomlinson, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,945
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,425
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,398
A coming-of-age tale for the young and naïve 17-year-old Catherine Morland, Northanger Abbey takes a decidedly comical look at themes of class, family, love and literature. Revelling in the sensationalist - and extremely popular - Gothic fiction of her day, the story follows Catherine out of Bath to the lofty manor of the Tilneys, where her overactive imagination gets to work constructing an absurd and melodramatic explanation for the death of Mrs Tilney, which threatens to jeopardise her newly forged friendships.
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1 out of 5 stars
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There is no substitute for unabridged
- By D. Littman on 09-08-17
- Northanger Abbey
- An Audible Original Drama
- By: Jane Austen, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrated by: Emma Thompson, Douglas Booth, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ella Purnell, Jeremy Irvine, Lily Cole
Great story, good voices
Reviewed: 01-28-20
This is a good story and well told, but the background noise is too loud. It's distracting to listen to the narrator and the dialog with lots of background conversation going on. I suppose you are supposed to feel like you're at a young ladies gathering in Bath as most of the background chatting is of high pitched girlish voices.
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The Hobbit
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 66,107
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 58,581
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Story5 out of 5 stars 58,710
Like every other hobbit, Bilbo Baggins likes nothing better than a quiet evening in his snug hole in the ground, dining on a sumptuous dinner in front of a fire. But when a wandering wizard captivates him with tales of the unknown, Bilbo becomes restless. Soon he joins the wizard’s band of homeless dwarves in search of giant spiders, savage wolves, and other dangers. Bilbo quickly tires of the quest for adventure and longs for the security of his familiar home. But before he can return to his life of comfort, he must face the greatest threat of all.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally! Thank you Audible!
- By Bryan J. Peterson on 10-20-12
- The Hobbit
- By: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Narrated by: Rob Inglis
Not a singer
Reviewed: 03-16-19
I like The Hobbit story, and could handle the reading of the prose, but when the narrater began to sing the songs or poems in the book, it was very jarring. Please, if they have to sing the songs or poems, please get an actual singer. I turned the book off when the narrater interpreted the dragon in a manner completely different from the description of the dragon's speech patterns in the book.
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Confederates in the Attic
- Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
- By: Tony Horwitz
- Narrated by: Arthur Addison
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 569
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 494
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 488
When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read for Civil War Buffs!
- By Ms Winston on 12-06-14
- Confederates in the Attic
- Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
- By: Tony Horwitz
- Narrated by: Arthur Addison
Great book to listen to
Reviewed: 04-13-18
What made the experience of listening to Confederates in the Attic the most enjoyable?
This is a very funny, laugh out loud narration of the author's trip through states affected by the Civil War. It was originally published in the 1990s, but feels very timely when discussing the Civil War monuments and efforts to remove them. The author describes participating in the Civil War re-enactments and specifically the die hard participants.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes, his voice is easy to listen to, and went well with the subject matter (a trip through the Southern states of the US).
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