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The Burglar's Christmas

By: Willa Cather
Narrated by: Max Bollinger
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A beautiful Christmas story of love, forgiveness and uneasy life. Set in Chicago on a bitterly cold Christmas night.

William considers stealing both to satisfy his hunger and to find excitement in his dull life, but when a woman drops a parcel, he gives it to her instead of running off with it. He feels as if he is a failed thief, in the same manner as he has failed at everything - college, journalism, real estate, performing. He then walks into a house in an attempt to steal jewellery, and his own mother finds him there.

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Public Domain (P)2015 Sovereign

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Not worth my time.

I had enjoyed Willa Carter's My Antonia, add I thought I would look for more. I thought this might be a nice Christmas story but it was just blah. Performance was not great either.

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Audible... you blew it with this one.

So disappointed. Willa Cather is the ultimate author of the Prairie tradition; her writing reflects the rich
heritage of the pioneers in the frontier of the midwest. Didn't the editors take this into consideration when
they engaged a narrator for this amazing story? A reader with a British accent just ruins the story...
no slight to the narrator himself, but this is like asking David Letterman to read Hamlet--- just a wrong fit.

In case you choose to redo this recording, and have no readers with a necessary midwestern accent,
I am available..

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