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The Reef

By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Anna Lee
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The Reef is a celebrated romance novel by American Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Anna Leath, a widow, and her former lover George Darrow. This sweeping romance is set in France.

Public Domain (P)2019 Woodkeep Audio Classics
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I can’t believe I had to pay for this audiobook. The reader’s odd choice of various nasal tones when quoting various characters was distracting and seemed to make a mockery of the author’s portrayals.

But the outright ignorance of pronunciation throughout the book was appalling. Because the reader sounded like an American, her butchering of French names (loo-vray for Louvre; callays for Calais, nyce for Nice) may have been forgivable in a grammar school student, but even common English was butchered (pro-offered for proffered, du-RO for Darrow, and on and on. These were not occasional, but dominated every chapter.

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