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Dragonwyck

By: Anya Seton
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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In the spring of 1844, the Wells family receives a letter from a distant relative, the wealthy landowner Nicholas Van Ryn. He has invited one of their daughters for an extended visit at his Hudson Valley estate, Dragonwyck. Eighteen-year-old Miranda, bored with her local suitors and commonplace life on the farm, leaps at the chance for escape. She immediately falls under the spell of the master and his mansion, mesmerized by the Gothic towers, flowering gardens, and luxurious lifestyle - unaware of the dark, terrible secrets that await.

©1944 Anya Seton Chase (P)2015 Tantor Fiction Genre Fiction Gothic Historical Historical Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Romance Scary
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Anya Seton was a prolific writer of what is now historical fiction. Her area of expertise was the area of where Connecticut and New York share borders: Greenwich. My personal favorite is The Winthrop Woman.

Historical fiction at it's best

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I've loved this story since I was a little girl, but I really struggled with the narration. She read, in my opinion, in an overly arch manner and an abundance of vocal fry. She generally did really well with anyone with a strong accent, but made most female characters, including our heroine, sound like simpering ninnies. I found it rather distracting, but still do recommend anyone interested to give it a try

Uneven but enjoyable

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This is a good gothic mystery. Some might find the pacing slow, but it was written in a different era, and it shows. This doesn’t make it an unenjoyable read; it’s just not contemporary fiction. Give it a shot and then perhaps check out the other Anya Seton books.

Good Gothic

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The story is predictable but the fluent use of grammar is superb! Anya Seton is an artistic storyteller and her use of adjectives is outstanding.

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Anything she writes is just outstanding the only reason I can say is that the performance of the narrator is bad is she has a monotone voice and that grates on the nerves something terrible, her intimate descriptions are amazing but the narrators makes you cringe at the idea of intimacy.

I can not listen to it so I will be looking for a book copy

Anya Seton is “ the American author “

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The plot and characters were well developed and the narrator did an excellent job of bringing the whole story to life.

Awesome story.

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narrator's reading is a bit mechanical. at times it sounded like a computer generated reader

better than the movie

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Predictable from beginning to end. Obvious clues as to what will happen. More suspense needed

Too Predictable

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This book was ok. Kept me entertained while working. It was extremely slow though. Only good for background listening. I walked away for about an hour at one point and when I came back I hadn't missed anything.

It was ok

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I have loved this book since I was a young girl.
Although it would not be considered politically correct in today’s climate it is a timeless story of good versus evil.
Splendidly narrated with emotion and clarity.

A Little known Classic

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