The Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice
Written by Wilkie Collins
Narrated by LibriVox Community
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About this audiobook
A kind, good-hearted genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appearing in an hotel all combine to create a horrifying conundrum. Who was the culprit and will finding out finally put an end to the mystery?
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Wilkie Collins
William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular painter. Collins himself demonstrated some artistic talent and had a painting hung in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1849, but his real passion was for writing. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand but hated it. He left and read law as a student at Lincoln's Inn but already his writing career was flowering. His first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame rests on his best known works, The Woman in White and The Moonstone, he wrote over thirty books, as well as numerous short stories, articles and plays. He was a hugely popular writer in his lifetime. Collins was an unconventional individual: he never married but established long term liaisons with two separate households. He died in 1889.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The reader was appalling! A real difficulty with pronunciation and an over emphasis on Pronouns for som weird reason... made listening rather painful
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The reader kept me on my toes expecting her to drop dead at any time...she needs some food and protein!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great story! A very enjoyable diversion.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The reader is sooo hard to listen to without a stress response. Why do you have to tell me the readers name, book title, and where the book is available at the beginning of EACH chapter!?!?
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The story is good, but too bad that the narrator does not know how to pronounce common words.
Absolutely ridiculous.
She doesn't know how to pronounce the word "govern", or "Thames", among others. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It seemed a very long and wordy book. The story itself was just okay.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What a tale! I truly loved the way it ended!