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    The Lady's Maid's Bell
    The Lady's Maid's Bell
    The Lady's Maid's Bell
    Audiobook52 minutes

    The Lady's Maid's Bell

    Written by Edith Wharton

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.

    "The Lady's Maid's Bell" is a classic ghost story about Alice Hartley, a servant who takes up a new position in a remote country house as companion to an invalid lady. Almost immediately she realizes that there is something not quite right in the house. Across the passage from her room is a door which is always kept locked. Apparently it was the room of a previous companion to her mistress, who died several months ago. But sometimes there are strange sounds heard in the locked room - and once or twice the dead maid is seen on the passage. And then comes the night when the mysterious bell rings for the first time...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateOct 17, 2016
    ISBN9781509421459
    The Lady's Maid's Bell
    Author

    Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton was born in 1862 to a prominent and wealthy New York family. In 1885 she married Boston socialite 'Teddy' Wharton but the marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1913. The couple travelled frequently to Europe and settled in France, where Wharton stayed until her death in 1937. Her first major novel was The House of Mirth (1905); many short stories, travel books, memoirs and novels followed, including Ethan Frome (1911) and The Reef (1912). She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature with The Age of Innocence (1920) and she was thrice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also decorated for her humanitarian work during the First World War.

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    • 3/5
      And, then what happened?
      I like the writings of Edith Wharton. Yet, when this was finished, I actually researched it online to determine if my download had dropped the last chapter or 2. It had not.
      For all the detail that Edith describes, way too many questions were unanswered.
      The narration is by Kathy Dobson, not a favorite of mine. I feel like she is from the US and attempts to read her assigned books in an English accent, greatly embellished. Sorry, Kathy. This particular story, however, reflects great improvement in her style.