Hide and Seek

by Wilkie Collins Narrated by Anna Simon

Overview

The artist Valentine Blyth has a very generous heart. He lovingly cares for his invalid wife, rescues a deaf orphan girl from maltreatment in a traveling circus and adopts her, and mentors a young man who gets in trouble with his tyrannical father. The girl, who received the nickname ¿Madonna', falls in love with the young man, Zack. Because one of Valentine's biggest fears is that Madonna's blood relations will one day trace her and take her away from his home, he keeps the little that he knows of her origins a strict secret. One day, Zack befriends a mysterious stranger, who has just returned from years of rough life in the American wilderness. From that moment, the plot thickens, in mid-19th century dramatic style.

This is Wilkie Collins' third published novel (1854, read from the 1861 edition). Summary by Anna Simon.

Editorial Reviews

SEPTEMBER 2022 - AudioFile

As Wilkie Collins weaves a mystery centered on an orphaned child’s parentage, narrator Nicholas Boulton captures the sundry characters one by one. Young Mary is adopted by a kindhearted artist and his wife after her mother dies unnamed. No one imagines that the key to her past is a hair bracelet that has been locked away. Boulton’s cadence suits Collins’s prose. He is both versatile and precise in his characterizations. He captures the eccentric and mysterious American visitor, Grice, as convincingly as the likable and lackadaisical Englishman, Zack Thorpe. With natural ease in his narrating style, Boulton delivers a charming performance of Collins’s entertaining mystery. D.M.W. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2022 - AudioFile

As Wilkie Collins weaves a mystery centered on an orphaned child’s parentage, narrator Nicholas Boulton captures the sundry characters one by one. Young Mary is adopted by a kindhearted artist and his wife after her mother dies unnamed. No one imagines that the key to her past is a hair bracelet that has been locked away. Boulton’s cadence suits Collins’s prose. He is both versatile and precise in his characterizations. He captures the eccentric and mysterious American visitor, Grice, as convincingly as the likable and lackadaisical Englishman, Zack Thorpe. With natural ease in his narrating style, Boulton delivers a charming performance of Collins’s entertaining mystery. D.M.W. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169306774
Publisher:	LibriVox
Publication date:	08/25/2014

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