The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (audio), Baroness Orczy

I don't normally listen to audiobooks (they are too slow a method of ingesting literature). However, this pair of cassettes were in danger of being disposed of as obsolete, so I thought I'd give them a listen first. ( Read more... )

I definitely recognised large chunks of this audiobook, and Hugh Laurie reads it admirably. However, overall as with most adaptations I'm left with a subsequent desire to revisit the original; one always tends to prefer the version first encountered. (It did take me years as a child to reconcile myself to the original version of "The Count of Monte-Cristo" rather than to the simplified plot of the dramatisation we had on a single LP!)