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The 13 Clocks

By: James Thurber
Narrated by: Edward Woodward
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The evil Duke of cold Coffin Castle fancies he has frozen time by stopping all of the clocks. He is fearful that one day a Prince may come and win away the hand of his niece, beautiful Princess Saralinda—the only warm hand in the castle. Several suitors have tried to court the Princess, but the Duke assigns them impossible tasks to thwart that fate. A few days before Saralinda's twenty-first birthday, a mysterious prince arrives to complete a seemingly impossible task and free Saralinda from the clutches of her uncle.

©2016 James Thurber (P)2002 Phoenix Books Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

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Edward Woodward gives a masterful narration of this classic Thurber fairy tale with marvellous portrayals of the different characters, bringing the whole to life just as one expects of the best audio book reader actors.
The audio book also has a sound track and sound effects accompanying the reader throughout, which is the first time I have come across this. I was not sure I liked it at first, but having listened to the whole tale quite a few times now I find I like it very much.

Delightful

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Amazing work from the narrator, doing all the characters' voices sound so distinct and all the different ways of talking. The sound effects were also spot on, and the author's style and word choices are superb! An utterly delightful listen, I will certainly recommend this audiobook to everyone I know!

I just want to listen to this at least once whilst having a printed copy of the book in front of me, as there was unfortunately a few words I couldn't understand, even after repeating some passages a number of times...

Absolutely fantastic!

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I don't normally like audiobooks with music and sound effects, but it worked very well in this instance. The story was even weirder than I had heard, and I enjoyed it a lot.

Very strange and very enjoyable

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The story is great and so is the narration, but the background music is annoying.

all great apart from the music

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Epic tale told in dramatic and comic style. Great narration. Clever fairy tale. Well worth buying.

Mad and inventive

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The music is too intrusive and noisy. The story is great, funny, whimsical and strange. I’d recommend a kindle or paperback instead

Music too loud

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A good book completely ruined by loud, tedious and completely inappropriate music throughout the whole story.

Infuriating background music

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