The Mysteries of Udolpho

De: Ann Radcliffe

Narrado por: Karen Cass

Wildly popular upon its release, The Mysteries of Udolpho is a Gothic novel of undeniable charm and power. The virtuous and loving Emily, the young protagonist, finds herself in the care of her aunt following the death of her father. Her aunt promptly marries the villain Montoni, a cruel and calculating man whose scheming leads him to lock both women in the dark and winding castle of Udolpho. Will they survive to tell of its terrors?

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Lost me at the end

It was mostly enjoyable but I thought the end was a bit limp. Romantic lead was boring.

kept me on my toes

what a great performance and even better story. Anne Radcliffe kept my intrigued and wanting to keep going! took some time to get used to the style but was well worth it!

WARNING! BAD ACCENT ALERT!

What did you like best about The Mysteries of Udolpho? What did you like least?

While Karen Cass does a fine job when using her own voice, she made the ill-advised decision to perform the spoken dialogue parts in a cringe-inducing and amateurish "French" accent, that becomes more and more onerous as the hours pass. And seeing as this is a 30+ hour book, that is onerous indeed. Audible really needs to make it a point to capture a representative passage for their sample narration, as if I had heard the baffling use of cartoonish accents, I would have sought another edition.

What aspect of Karen Cass’s performance would you have changed?

As above. It is understood the characters are speaking French, there is no need to flog us with inane accents to remind us of this at every spoken dialogue section.

Any additional comments?

I'm not commenting to review the book per se. It's a very long classic gothic novel, proceed at your own risk.

hooked

my first meeting with this novel and I am going to miss it..... beautiful reading, which helps you fall into the fanciful fairy tale.

Loved it!

What a tale that was! I'm so happy I heard about this book. From begining to end, it was a "page turner." Radcliff can describe things in such detail, you feel like you can really see it all through her own eyes.