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Villette
- Narrated by: Mandy Weston
- Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
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- Caroline
- 19-12-08
Excellent reading
This is my favourite audiobook! Of course because of Charlotte Bronte's novel, but the reading of Mandy Weston makes it so much more felt. Lucy Snow's musings, restraints are thouroughly full of sense. Other characters are given their own personality. The chemistry between the personages are sparkling. I am hearing this one over and over again.
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- Nadia
- 31-08-11
Wonderfully read
I grew impatient at times, but there are some lovely bits to this book and it really is fantastically well read. Mandy Weston somehow manages to make Lucy Snowe a warmer, fuller character yet without betraying the spirit of the text. I'm not sure about giving the characters French accents when their words are translated, but I suppose it was an easy way to distinguish characters.
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- love to read
- 18-08-11
Deeply thoughtful, and a touching love story
Psychological character study, religious and philosophical meditation, and above all - a Romance with a touch of the Bronte Gothic, 'Villette' is all this and more. It is the story of Lucy Snowe, a young, orphaned English girl struggling to make her own way in life, who comes to live in the French town of Villette. It is a thoughtful, satisfying novel, with all the strength and beauty of Bronte's poetic language and vision. It is perhaps not as directly accessible as 'Jane Eyre' or even 'Shirley', it feels more mature in style, more thoughtful. It is a wonderful expression of the creative and spiritual mind of Charlotte Bronte, and a touching love story.
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- neil
- 30-11-17
Did I really just read that?
Beautifully bizarre. Critically correct
A trippy euro novel that says much. Love it. Well ahead of its time
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- Sofie Ottesen
- 30-09-16
Completely compelling
My impulse purchase of Vileltte on a £3.99 deal was a stroke of genius. I loved the story of Lucy Snowe - a mature masterpiece by Charlotte Bronte - I can believe it is not more well known. I am utterly taken in and want to start listening to it again. Today!
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- RONAN O'CALLAGHAN
- 27-07-20
Repays a little patience
Am I there only male reviewer here? All here unfolds in a little world of a few strongly delineated characters, the chief of which is the narrator - she is infuriatingly self effacing most of the time but that is part of the fascination.
A marvellous writer really, managing external scenes and inner life with skilful insertions of present tense. The whole thing is like a finely worked miniature. I’m glad I did not give in to occasional impatience with this as the reward was very satisfying.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-05-17
French
I thoroughly enjoyed the reader's different English and Irish accents. I loved listening to her reading the book as long as it was in English. However, I'm very disappointed in the French, which is clearly not fluent nor natural. As a fluent speaker, I have been very annoyed at not even being able to understand what is being said at times because of the inaccurate pronunciation. Loved the story though!
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- Mrs. Wendy Hawkins
- 03-01-17
Unexpected French
I was taken aback by the amount of school girl French I needed to remember but I managed. The book was read very well and I enjoyed the old fashioned English. I was glad I stuck to it and listened to the whole book, very enjoyable and I would recommend to others.
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- Fiftysomething
- 31-05-16
Needs a better reader
What didn’t you like about Mandy Weston’s performance?
This book needed the reader to pay more careful attention to sense and sentence structure, and which words to emphasise. In particular, it seems to me fairly evident that Mandy Weston is not a natural French speaker. Why would you choose anyone to read this novel who didn't speak French fluently? The editor should have been more picky and, at least, needed to make sure that the French was accurately pronounced.
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- Rachel
- 12-09-23
Wonderful narrator
This is a beautifully written novel whose heroine is wonderfully understated and her character unfolds gently as the novel progresses to its climax. The ending had me crying buckets (with sadness or happiness I won’t say as I don’t want to spoil the ending for those who haven’t read it).
My only criticism is there is a lot of French but I managed to find a free version of the text and used google translate so as not to miss out on the meaning.
Overall I really enjoyed this novel. It has a lot of depth to it and Charlotte Brontë is a great writer. The narrator is wonderful.
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