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Author(s): Maurier, Daphne du
Reader(s): Maloney, Michael
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: 20th Century
Catalogue No: NA434112
Barcode: 9789626343418
Release Date: 05/2005
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MAURIER, D.: House on the Strand (The) (Abridged)
Dick Young stays in his friend Professor Magnus Lane’s house in Cornwall, on the understanding he will be a guinea-pig for a new drug that Magnus has developed. As a result of the experiment, he is transported back to fourteenth-century Cornwall. With each ‘trip’, he becomes more and more involved with Medieval intrigue, adultery and murder. Is it merely hallucination; a subconscious escape from his own complicated life, or a real journey into the past? He becomes obsessed with the world he visits, and past and present eventually become inextricably and perilously mixed.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Maurier, Daphne du - Author
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1 | The first thing I noticed was the clarity of the air… | 04:13 |
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2 | I might have stood for ever, entranced… | 04:41 |
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3 | The rush-strewn floor was littered… | 05:29 |
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4 | It must have taken the best part of ten minutes… | 05:59 |
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5 | He had gone. I was left holding the receiver… | 04:03 |
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6 | It rained the following day… | 03:54 |
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7 | The entrance gate at the far end… | 05:29 |
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8 | The Bishop, keen-eyed, alert, was missing nothing | 04:58 |
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9 | There had been no perceptible transition | 04:11 |
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10 | I dialled the number of Magnus’s flat… | 05:36 |
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11 | There was an airmail letter from Vita… | 03:23 |
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12 | I packed up bottle B with great care… | 03:16 |
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13 | This time, sitting motionless… | 05:20 |
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14 | November…May…Six months must have passed… | 05:04 |
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15 | She pushed aside her frame… | 05:18 |
Disc 2
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1 | Feeling had returned to my limbs… | 04:19 |
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2 | The telephone started ringing… | 05:03 |
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3 | When I had dressed I went to the garage… | 04:43 |
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4 | I had hardly put down the receiver… | 03:39 |
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5 | The kitchen itself had become the living quarters… | 04:11 |
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6 | ‘Enter, sir, and welcome…’ | 04:20 |
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7 | We came to the other side of the house… | 03:48 |
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8 | ‘Hi, Dick,’ called the boys… | 05:20 |
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9 | I noticed an unopened letter on my desk | 04:21 |
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10 | The next day being Sunday… | 04:29 |
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11 | ‘Let me stay another night…’ | 05:06 |
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12 | She did not look at him… | 05:19 |
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13 | If Magnus had wanted to drop a deliberate brick… | 07:31 |
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14 | There was just enough breeze… | 03:27 |
Disc 3
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1 | The moon awakened me | 04:44 |
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2 | The monk, despite his preoccupation… | 05:51 |
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3 | They were too intent upon their task… | 06:32 |
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4 | I lay there waiting for the nausea… | 06:15 |
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5 | It was like cutting off the only link… | 04:52 |
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6 | I did not wake up until after ten… | 05:32 |
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7 | Why the hell hadn’t Magnus telephoned… | 05:18 |
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8 | I went along to my dressing-room… | 03:53 |
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9 | There was a police car drawn up outside… | 04:03 |
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10 | It would make sense to no one | 03:47 |
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11 | The next morning she took the boys… | 05:11 |
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12 | I went back into the house… | 04:38 |
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13 | Magnus’s lawyer, Herbert Dench… | 05:26 |
Disc 4
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1 | It was snowing | 05:03 |
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2 | Isolda was standing by the window… | 05:30 |
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3 | Roger, opening the hall-door… | 03:16 |
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4 | Self-preservation is common to all living things… | 04:28 |
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5 | The date of the inquest was fixed… | 03:27 |
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6 | The inquest was over… | 03:02 |
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7 | I heard her walk through the hall to the kitchen… | 05:59 |
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8 | He lifted his head and listened | 04:09 |
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9 | I knew it must happen, and it did | 03:33 |
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10 | There was nothing I could do | 05:20 |
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11 | The depth of an abyss… | 04:19 |
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12 | I had the impression that everything… | 04:38 |
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13 | We sat in the lounge at Exeter airport… | 04:59 |
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14 | He shook his head… | 05:01 |
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15 | There can have been no one in the loft… | 06:12 |
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16 | I could not remember any more… | 04:04 |
Total Playing Time: 04:35:32
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