The American Boy
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The American Boy
Seslendiren:
Alex Jennings
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Seslendiren:
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Alex Jennings
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Andrew Taylor
Özet
England, 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after, a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of Seven Dials. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of theft and a beautiful heiress flirts with her inferiors. A strange destiny links each of these events to the American boy Edgar Allen Poe, brought to England by his foster father and sent to the leafy village of Stoke Newington to be educated. Soon the intrigue enmeshes a poor schoolmaster, Thomas Shield, who struggles to understand what is happening before it destroys him and those he loves.©2003 Andrew Taylor (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
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A Richard and Judy Book Club selection
"Jennings reads with such enormous variety that we are consumed by his characterizations.... The listener becomes completely absorbed with the persona of the novel." (AudioFile)
Thomas Shield is a young school master in whose class is The American Boy, Edgar Allan Poe and his shy friend Frant in whose lives the young man is to become dangerously embroiled.
Andrew Taylor can be relied on for authentic historical background which makes you feel that you are absolutely there with all the vivid details of daily life and historical background - here it is Regency England in 1819 and financial affairs in America. There's all you could wish for in gothic mystery: murder, deceit, passion, loveless marriage, dangers, old mansions with rambling gardens and outhouses, jealousies, old grievances ... At the very end an Epilogue tells us just how much of the Edgar Allan Poe story is fact.
Enjoyable Gothic mystery
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Because I struggled to listen I found it confusing at times and had to repeat sections to get the gist of the plot. It’s a twisting tale and fortunes go up and down. Well narrated.
Long winded and occasionally dreary
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Very well put together plot kept you interested with its twisting turns.First rate narration by Alex Jennings. Time well spent.
Enjoyable like Dickens or Wilkie Collins story.
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Overlong
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However, having listened to Jennings' rendition of 'Pompeii' at least three times, I did keep thinking the school's headteacher was Plinny!
The story is very entwined, and you do need to concentrate to keep track of the characters. I tend to listen to stories as 30 seconds here, 2 minutes there, half an hour sometimes, which makes this difficult. The ageing process instills a sense of mild panic that there aren't enough years left to read or listen to all the great books out there, so every 30 seconds must be grabbed as an opportunity not to be missed :-)
The accents Jennings' manages are first class, especially Poe's slipping from Irish to Scottish to American, from sentence to sentence. So skilfully done by Jennings.
The story and imagery are very Dickensesque. Set between 1819 and 1850 or thereabouts, it straddles the years of Dickens childhood and youth, so this is not surprising.
I enjoyed this book and thoroughly recommend it. Even if I did lose the plot a bit in the finally quarter!
Excellent. Although I did get a bit lost.
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