The Woman in White - version 2
Wilkie Collins
Read by Tony Addison
Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and setting them in commonplace surroundings among "people like us", Featuring unforgettable characters such as the incomparable Count Fosco and the redoubtable Marion Halcombe (a woman for whom male Victorian readers politely inquired of Wilkie the address as they wanted to marry her), The Woman In White with its compassionate treatment of those suffering mental distress ought to be credited with having put the cause of mental health care a hundred years ahead - had not Jane Eyre with its madwoman in the attic been generally credited with the reverse. Read it for the female doubling central plot device alone - a rare feature in the writing of men about women. - Summary by Tony Addison (30 hr 8 min)
Chapters
Chapter One | 1:13:06 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Two | 55:51 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Three | 59:49 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Four | 1:04:45 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Five | 39:53 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Six | 51:57 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Seven | 59:06 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Eight | 47:14 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Nine | 47:24 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Ten | 47:33 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Eleven | 44:36 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Twelve | 50:22 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Thirteen | 51:36 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Fourteen | 45:55 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Fifteen | 29:31 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Sixteen | 56:17 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Seventeen | 39:04 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Eighteen | 33:30 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Nineteen | 46:20 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Twenty | 10:19 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Twenty One | 1:09:43 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Twenty Two | 1:02:52 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Twenty Three | 1:06:39 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Twenty Four | 33:09 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Twenty Five | 53:19 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Twenty Six | 54:42 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Twenty Seven | 39:31 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Twenty Eight | 35:32 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Twenty Nine | 36:04 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Thirty | 33:58 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Thirty One | 49:39 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Thirty Two | 58:28 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Thirty Three | 48:12 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Thirty Four | 38:41 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Thirty Five | 48:03 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Thirty Six | 38:48 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Thirty Seven | 47:29 | Read by Tony Addison |
Chapter Thirty Eight | 39:24 | Read by Tony Addison |
Reviews
Sorry but I can't listen to this
Lancashire Listener
I feel strongly that reviews and comments must be honest. I have listened and enjoyed so many of these audio books and am very grateful to the readers who give their time so generously. I have given up listening to this book only 5 mins into it. I cannot rate the book itself given so little time but the reading is so stilted and lacking any inflection I am going to have to give up and seek a different version with an alternative reader.
Sometimes the reader ruins the book
A LibriVox Listener
What I hoped would be a great book was torture to the ear
I like books
I’ve not finished the book. But I did find that increasing the speed of the recording to 1.2 made it a lot easier listening. In fact I’ve found the speed adjustment up and down to be really helpful for many of the books.
oh dear
Lord de Ville
I gave up on this one after just a few minutes. I listened instead to the 2001 BBC dramatic version.
great book & the reader's voice is strange but not bad
Shawn Jarvey
i got used to the voice & didn't mind it.
wonderful listen
Amanda Blevins
Good book with a great reader. kept me on my toes
Pete Maybury
Excellent story. I was hooked from beginning to end
A LibriVox Listener
Great reading. Thank you so much!