The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Very Poor Reading of a Good Romance

(3 stars)

Dragonflyer

This is a very good book for those of us who like this genre, but there are many, many chapters that are impossible to even understand (so I read those online) because of the poor English of one of the foreign readers. If the book had been read by an articulate reader(s), I would have ranked it 4 or 5.

Great job by all readers

(5 stars)

dahszil

ahh...this heaven thing and living this life for the afterlife...sigh. and is not a mere fallible human being hypocritical for being a "jesus freak"? I have found that people who spend there time striving to be an ascetic, etc become nastier as the years go by. I remember the nuns in grammar school. How uncomfortable they were in their stiff "penguin garb" and how out of nowhere could burst in rage and wack some poor fellow schoolmate over the head with the chalkboard pointer. anyway eternal heaven seems like a pretty boring, horribly boring thing. if there is any next life, i think reincarnation would be a lot "cooler", likeable. This is a precious free service. If you do not like accents or what you call "poor readers" than go buy the audiobook. I wonder how many of my fellow anglophones would feel under such petty, trivial"criticism"? Good job by all the readers. Especially those whose english is a second language. I doubt there are very many english speaking listeners here, including myself, who could perform as well if they had to read in their second language. I have found that most foreigners(sans perhaps the French, but there is an historical background...)are very tolerant while an english speaker is trying to communicate in their countries. But while here in the Anglophone world, especially in "my country usa, in general people are not sympathetic or even down right rude to foreigners who speak "americanese" or english with some trouble or just because they have an accent. And in all probability there are many more foreigners who speak english better than most of us can speak theirs. alas, it would be no surprise that most of you critics are monolingual anglophones just like me.

Classic of a Tormented Life

(4 stars)

MarLea

Spellbinding story from beginning to the end, as there were so many twists and turns I didn’t know how it would turn out. Having never read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, I was appreciative of having it read to me, as it was so lengthy. I do wish, however, that the reader would be male for the majority of the story which is his perspective, and female for the portions which were hers. It would have been helpful to me to have made a diagram of characters, as it is difficult to keep up with them all and their names and relations with each other. Perhaps having a book nearby would have assisted me in understanding some of the text as well, when the readers do not have English as a first language. Overall an excellent book and I highly recommend it.

joan

(3.5 stars)

Anne Bronte, she has been overlooked! I just wish that people who are not English speakers born would not be able to read these books. What is their purpose? There are many other ways for them to practice their English pronunciation. Listeners are looking so forward to hearing these books. Why are they allowed to ruin the experience?

Hard to listen to some chapters

(2 stars)

korneliaRed

some of the chapters are beautifully read and others are almost impossible to understand because of one of the readers' heavy accent and bad pronunciation. Would be absolutely awesome if someone could re-record those chapters to make the whole experience more fluent and pleasant.

(4 stars)

Loved the story but agree with the other reviews regarding the reader with the very heavy accent. She was difficult understand and I had to really concentrate on listening to her instead of relaxing and passively listening.

Another Version Available

(0 stars)

librivoxbooks

Those who find difficulty understanding some readers may enjoy the dramatic reading of this book better: https://archive.org/details/tenant_wildfell_hall_1208_librivox

sometimes hard to understand

(3.5 stars)

Tes

I enjoyed this story but one of the readers was hard to understand.