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Sheryl A

Georgetown, TX, US Minor Outlying Islands | Member Since 2009

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Mansfield Park

UNABRIDGED
- by Jane Austen
- Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
Mansfield Park

UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 49 mins)

By Jane Austen

Narrated By Juliet Stevenson

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(199)
Performance
(132)
Story
(134)

At the tender age of 10, Fanny Price is 'adopted' by her rich relations and is removed from the poverty of her home in Portsmouth to the opulence of Mansfield Park. The transplantation is not a happy one. Dependent, helpless, neglected and forgotten, Fanny struggles to come to terms with her new life until, tested almost to the limits of endurance, she assumes her rightful role....
Ilana says: "Comments from a Jane Austen Novice"
"Well read and Well edited"

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An exceptional narration and abridgement of a classic. But I bought it because of the narrator Juliette Stevenson.....superb.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Friday's Child

UNABRIDGED
- by Georgette Heyer
- Narrated by Eve Matheson
Friday's Child

UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 46 mins)

By Georgette Heyer

Narrated By Eve Matheson

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(185)
Performance
(99)
Story
(101)

This story of mistaken love is a romantic fiction set in the English Regency period. It centers on Lord Sheringham who has been rejected by the woman he loves but the woman who has secretly loved him since childhood is waiting.
Susan says: "This is a good one from Heyer"
"Poor audio control by narrator"

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Narrator speaks normally while reading content, speaks too softly while doing women characters' conversation, and shouts while doing men characters. I had to change the volume constantly and will never listen to this again.

9 of 11 people found this review helpful
Pride and Prejudice

UNABRIDGED
- by Jane Austen
- Narrated by Sharon Williams
Pride and Prejudice

UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 1 min)

By Jane Austen

Narrated By Sharon Williams

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(26)
Performance
(13)
Story
(13)

A delightful novel about "how girls catch husbands." Listen in to find out: What will happen to sister Lydia? Will the arrogant Lady Catherine de Burgh's intrigues be foiled? Will sister Jane marry Mr. Bingley? And especially, will Elizabeth, cured of her prejudice, and Mr. Darcy, cured of his pride, fall into each other's arms? Listeners will also savor the wit, the sly irony and satire and comedy that Miss Austen crowds into almost every quiet, well-bred line of this novel.
Sheryl A says: "My Favorite of All time"
"My Favorite of All time"

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Story

Sharon Williams gives an excellent narration of my favorite book. I cannot wait to hear it again.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Persuasion

UNABRIDGED
- by Jane Austen
- Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
Persuasion

UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 47 mins)

By Jane Austen

Narrated By Juliet Stevenson

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(587)
Performance
(324)
Story
(328)

Anne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. But events conspire to unravel the knots of deceit and misunderstanding in this beguiling and gently comic story of love and fidelity.
Emily - Audible says: "Juliet Stevenson is Simply Amazing"
"Beautifully Read"

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Performance
Story

A favorite of mine read beautifully as ever by Juliette Stevenson.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Pride and Prejudice

ABRIDGED
- by Jane Austen
- Narrated by Jenny Agutter
Pride and Prejudice

ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 41 mins)

By Jane Austen

Narrated By Jenny Agutter

Overall
(27)
Performance
(2)
Story
(2)

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." So opens this famous novel which has become Jane Austen's best loved and best known work.
Sheryl A says: "Very Enjoyable abridgement"
"Very Enjoyable abridgement"

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This is a very enjoyable abridgement. It is well edtied with very good narration. I prefer the unabridged, but appreciate this one when I have less time......a favorite I return to again and again.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Our Mutual Friend

ABRIDGED
- by Charles Dickens
- Narrated by David Timson
Our Mutual Friend

ABRIDGED (11 hrs and 51 mins)

By Charles Dickens

Narrated By David Timson

Overall
(7)
Performance
(1)
Story
(1)

Out of the dust-heaps and dirty streets of mid-Victorian London, Dickens creates a classic murder-mystery tale. A dead man is fished out of the Thames by a scavenger and his daughter. Who is he, and how did he get there? The man's death affects members of all levels of a society permeated with greed. Dickens presents an array of characters both touching and humorous, from Mr. Boffin, the "Golden" Dustman, to Jenny Wren, the lame doll-dressmaker. It is a story enriched by disguise and intrigue.
Sheryl A says: "Beautifully edited."
"Beautifully edited."

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Dickens very much needed an editor for the full length version of his novel. This ia superbly done. Narration by David Timson is beyond excellent.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Persuasion

ABRIDGED
- by Jane Austen
- Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
Persuasion

ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 55 mins)

By Jane Austen

Narrated By Juliet Stevenson

Overall
(18)
Performance
(3)
Story
(3)

Anne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first and only love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. When their paths finally cross again, Anne finds herself slighted and all traces of their former intimacy gone. As the pair continue to share the same social circle, dramatic events in Lyme Regis, and later in Bath, conspire to unravel the knots of deceit and misunderstanding in this beguiling and gently comic story of love and fidelity.
Angela says: "Wonderful."
"Excellent editing"

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Superb narration of a well-edited classic. I recommend many books narrated by Juliette Stevenson.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Sense and Sensibility

UNABRIDGED
- by Jane Austen
- Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
Sense and Sensibility

UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 46 mins)

By Jane Austen

Narrated By Juliet Stevenson

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(609)
Performance
(268)
Story
(264)

When Mrs. Dashwood is forced by an avaricious daughter-in-law to leave the family home in Sussex, she takes her three daughters to live in a modest cottage in Devon. For Elinor, the eldest daughter, the move means a painful separation from the man she loves, but her sister Marianne finds in Devon the romance and excitement which she longs for.
Jo says: "Superb - Justice to Jane Austen and Emma Thompson"
"Classic well done"

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Story

Juliette Stevenson is such an excellent narrator, I purchased books I hadn't planned to hear more of her. Sense and Sensibility is, as ever, a pleasure.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful
North and South

ABRIDGED
- by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Narrated by Jenny Agutter
North and South

ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 20 mins)

By Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated By Jenny Agutter

Overall
(8)
Performance
(2)
Story
(2)

Elizabeth Gaskell highlights the difference between the middle and working classes in this tale set in the time of the Industrial Revolution. A largely autobiographical story, she also highlights the good that each group can do for each other, and the friendships and understandings that can blossom between two seemingly irreconcilable means and modes of life. Gaskell shows her great love of people, and of love itself, in this touching and enlightening tale.
Sheryl A says: "Too brief"
"Too brief"

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A complex novel that is not done justice by reducing to a simple love story. Narration is very good.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Middlemarch

ABRIDGED
- by George Eliot
- Narrated by Hannah Gordon
Middlemarch

ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 24 mins)

By George Eliot

Narrated By Hannah Gordon

Overall
(5)
Performance
(0)
Story
(0)

Praised by Virginia Woolf as one of the only novels "written for grown-up people", Middlemarch is a highly accomplished story, whose characters are involving and intriguing. Dorothea's story interlinks powerfully and tantalisingly with that of Lydgate's, a doctor, who joins her for a some of her journey towards making sense of her role in the world, both as a woman and as an idealist.
Sheryl A says: "Too brief"
"Too brief"

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Far too short an abridgement for a book that in 30 hours in unabridged form. I was disappointed.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful