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Prelude

By: Katherine Mansfield
Narrated by: Ire Monger
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"Prelude" is a 1918 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published by the Hogarth Press in July 1918, and later reprinted in "Bliss and Other Stories".
©2017 SAGA Egmont (P)2017 SAGA Egmont
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An ill advised purchase

I was so looking forward to hearing this but I’m sorry to say the experience was fairly lack-lustre. I don’t know who produced this but the reading gave the impression of an intern who was feeling a bit peaky one afternoon and was shoved into a back room and told to read a story into a cheap cassette player without being told why. An office telephone is clearly audible at one point as well as something that sounded like a delivery vehicle.

Perhaps I am mistaken and there is some literary convention requiring Mansfield’s work to be read in this way, I certainly hope not.
Every audio book reader I have ever listened has succeeded in breathing life into the text in some way, this one appears to have suffocated it and gone home. I feel like Audible should have paid me £6.00 for agreeing to listen to it.

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