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Miss Pym Disposes
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
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Summary
This audiobook, read by Audie award-winning narrators, includes unabridged recordings of Mark Twains's greatest works: 12 novels; over 120 of his beloved short stories; Chapters From My Autobiography; 5 pieces of short non-fiction; and 6 pieces of his groundbreaking, wide-ranging travel writing.
Novels
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Coat
• The Gilded Age
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
• A Prince and the Pauper
• The American Claimant
• Tom Sawyer Abroad
• Tom Sawyer, Detective
• Pudd’nhead Wilson
• A Horse’s Tale
• The Mysterious Stranger
Short Stories
• Over 120 of Twain's inventive, humorous, and most-loved short stories, including:
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• A Dog’s Tale
• Baker’s Blue Jay Yarn
• Jim Wolf and the Wasps
• Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral
• The 10,000 [British] Pound Bank Note
• Luck
• My First Lie and How I Got Out of It
• Was It Heaven, or Hell?
• Cannibalism in the Cars
• His Grandfather’s Old Ram
• And many more
Travel Writing and Journalism
• Old Times on the Mississippi
• Life on the Mississippi
• Chapters From My Autobiography
• The Innocents Abroad
• Roughing It
• A Tramp Abroad
• Following the Equator
• Some Rambling Notes of An Idle Excursion
• Christian Science
• Queen Victoria’s Jubilee
• My Platonic Sweetheart
• Editorial Wild Oats
Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Clemens, was the celebrated author of several novels, including two major classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He was also a riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur and inventor.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-09-23
Wonderful tale and excellent narration
Thoroughly enjoyed this, rather a fan of Ms. Try but hadn’t read this one. Thought the narration was very good. All in all a great listen!
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- Allegra
- 25-05-23
Splendid novel, but not so splendidly read
The story, like all of Josephine Tey's, is excellent, head and shoulders above almost all the other Golden Age writers. Intelligent, beautifully written, and proof that genre fiction can enter the realms of 'serious' literature.
The narrator, on the other hand, was disappointing. Too modern-sounding in her delivery, with a strange mode of speech that gives every word almost equal weight, producing a robotic effect. And with the trying verbal tic of overemphasising the 'ee' sound at the ends of words: loyaltEE, deliverEE ... Rather like Brian Redhead's speech patterns, for anybody who may remember him. Over an entire novel this can become very irritating. A few mispronunciations too (reveille, for example), but almost every reader has a few of those.
I would have liked to listen to all the Josephine Tey novels, but am too much put off by the reader. If only the brilliant Hugh Fraser or Stephanie Cole could have read them.
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- Jeremy
- 07-09-23
What a star Josephine Tey must have been
Ms Tey (and her excellent reader) had me enthralled from page 1. She captured life in an all girls physiotherapist school cut off from the world fantastically. Everything was internally focused apart from tea in a nearby cafe. Just as Ms Pym did not want to leave, so did I not want to finish the story.
It is the different characters so well painted and their behaviours which make the story. The reader differentiates them splendidly and adds so much ambience.
Five out of five.
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