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The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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Milly Theale is a young, beautiful, and fabulously wealthy American. When she arrives in London and meets the equally beautiful but impoverished Kate Croy, they form an intimate friendship. But nothing is as it seems: materialism, romance, self-delusion, and ultimately fatal illness insidiously contaminate the glamorous social whirl.

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Great narration for a dull book. I wanted to like this classic but James's prose just isn't for me.

Not for me

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There’s a message in this story, and the well crafted way that it is told is perfectly done. James is a master. His sympathies for his characters are apparent.

Enjoy

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Juliet Stevenson is my favorite Audible narrator, but even she can't rescue this oblique and irritating novel. I still adore Henry James, but maybe not the late novels so much.

I love Juliet Stevenson

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Juliet Stevenson is one of Naxos's best readers, and in WINGS OF THE DOVE she truly excels, not just in catching the inflections of HJ's sometimes meandering sentences but (and this is hard) keeping tedium at bay. The dialogue sounds genuinely SPOKEN, as do the extended paragraphs in the narrator's own voice.

Exceptional performance

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This writing is not crystal clear. Rather, there is a vagueness to it and a formality of speech that is very challenging.

Difficult reading

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