We Have Always Lived in the Castle Audio book Free

We Have Always Lived in the Castle Audio book Free by Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere.
Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. But one day a stranger arrives—cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune—and manages to penetrate into their carefully shielded lives. Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods, resulting in crisis, tragedy, and the revelation of a terrible secret.
Jackson’s novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more—like some of her other fictions—as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normalcy itself.

Download We Have Always Lived in the Castle Audio book Free by (Shirley Jackson)

• Duration: 5 hours, 33 minutes
• Writer: Shirley Jackson
• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Narrators: Bernadette Dunne
• Genres: Bernadette Dunne
• Rating: 4.13
• Narrator Rating: 4.5
• Publication: Friday, 01 January 2010

We Have Always Lived in the Castle Audio book Free Reviews

• Anonymous

  The book was not haunting or mysterious but actually quite boring. You finish the book with more questions than answers. Not a satisfying read, with a lacklustre conclusion

  Rating: 2

• Tom Purnell

  Fascinating book. Characters brilliantly realised. Narrator excellent.

  Rating: 5

• Natale R.

  hauntingly good book. I highly recommended if you want to short and haunting read but nothing disturbing

  Rating: 4

• Robert Y

  Rather slow, but creepy. There is a scene not of horror but of terror about half-way through. Well-written (well, it's Shirley Jackson). The reader is excellent.

  Rating: 4

• Dina Stark

  I loved the tone of this book and the very odd characters. I did a combo of reading and listening and I do think the narration adds a bit of color and realism to the characters. Do not read the forward as it gives away some details you may not want to know. The book itself has a great quirky tone. It is a bit creepy, but I don't think it is scary. The end was a bit anticlimactic for me, but I think it was worth reading. It's a fast read/listen.

  Rating: 4

• Ranyah Ghussein

  When I was looking for a "scary" book to listen to on the internet this book kept popping up, so I excitedly added it. I had high expectation but ended up being very disappointed! The book reads very slowly, and spends too much time rambling on and on about details that have no bearing on the story. The story is told in the form of a lot of nonsensical ramblings from a mentally unhinged protagonist. I really wish I didn't waste my credit on this!

  Rating: 2

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