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Title: The Princess
Author: Alfred Tennyson
Narrator: Alice Johnson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-14-17
Publisher: Audioliterature
Genres: Drama & Poetry, Poetry
Publisher's Summary:
A beautiful young woman hides away, wanting nothing to do with men; and founds a women's university, where no man can enter.
But as the master Tennyson writes, "Life is brief but love is long"; love will find a way, and the prince to whom the young woman was betrothed in infancy disguises himself into a woman and enters the premises...
This classic narrative poem continues to enchant generation after generation of listeners and it is no wonder why: "Better not be at all than not be noble."
©2017 Audioliterature (P)2017 Audioliterature
Members Reviews:
Amazing
To read this is to learn the manner in which women in Muslim countries live. The book is interesting and very informative. The people in it become like women we would meet and befriend anywhere in the world. To me the author brought to the forefront the fact that regardless of our differences in customs and religious beliefs, all of us as women long for the same things in life.
Real and touching to the bones!
Full of hope, terrifyingly charged with true stories that you can't scape of feeling empathy. Reviling to all us women and men of today that sometimes take for granted the greatness of our simple every day freedom to be masters of our own lives
Well-written, important read...
This book tells of such appalling acts against women, that it is nearly incomprehensible in the nave eyes of an American woman. It is very well-written, and Jean Sasson lends a strong voice to women who have no voice at all, while strengthening their plight against horrific injustices. I would certainly recommend this book as a window into a world so immeasurably different than ours.
However, being the fastidious reader that I am, I will admit that it was difficult for me to discern fact from fiction in this story. We are told that this is a true story, and that names have been changed to protect the identity of Princess Sultana and her family; however, with so many identifying familial situations, I can only imagine that the Princess would be hard-pressed to keep her identity hidden. I do not doubt the validity of much of what is described here in everyday Saudi Arabian life, but some of her personal events seemed almost improbable. The escape with her children, for example, seemed so unlikely with all the restrictions placed on these women; I got the sense that perhaps it was at least somewhat embellished. There were inconsistencies in her behavior that made me question the validity of what I read, and later led me to read the various articles about the debate over its authenticity.
Despite my hesitation in that respect, I will reiterate that this truly is an important read. The novel made me acutely aware that we, as Westerners, are abundantly blessed with freedoms that many women around the world will never experience. And for that reason, I applaud Ms. Sasson in her attempts to bring light to this wretched oppression.
Interesting look behind the veil...
Interesting story of what REALLY happens in the middle east. The book tells of the life of a woman who grew up in a wealthy family, her relationship with her brother and father and how different it was from her sisters and mother. It was an interesting story from her childhood to her life as a wife and mother. I loved how she told her story,and how she was not a "traditional" wife who just did whatever her husband said. I identified with her on several levels and enjoyed the book.