Hide and Seek
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The girl named Mary -- they called her Madonna, and she was deaf and dumb and beautiful as a painting by Raphael -- was a mystery. The Blyths adopted her from a kindly old woman connected to a traveling circus, but everyone knew she wasn't from circus folk. All they DID know about her identity was that she'd lost her hearing in an accident, and the proprietor of the circus had treated her horribly, and, and . . . and in her cache of secret personal private things, she owned one thing as precious to her as life a bracelet made of brown human hair with the initials MG tied into it. The Blyths kept it locked in a bureau for fear that Mary's unknown family might one day claim her. . . .
37
Chapters
~444 min
Est. Listening Time
English
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3.7 ★
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Chapters (37)
- HIDE AND SEEK
- TO
- CHARLES DICKENS,
- PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION
- OPENING CHAPTER. A CHILD’S SUNDAY.
- BOOK I. THE HIDING.
- CHAPTER I. A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, AND A STRANGE CHARACTER.
- CHAPTER II. MR. BLYTH IN HIS STUDIO.
- CHAPTER III. MADONNA’S CHILDHOOD.
- CHAPTER IV. MADONNA’S MOTHER.
- CHAPTER V. MADONNA’S MISFORTUNE.
- CHAPTER VI. MADONNA GOES TO LONDON.
- CHAPTER VII. MADONNA IN HER NEW HOME.
- CHAPTER VIII. MENTOR AND TELEMACHUS.
- CHAPTER IX. THE TRIBULATIONS OF ZACK.
- CHAPTER X. MR. BLYTH’S DRAWING ACADEMY.
- CHAPTER XI. THE BREWING OF THE STORM.
- BOOK II. THE SEEKING.
- CHAPTER I. THE MAN WITH THE BLACK SKULL-CAP.
- CHAPTER II. THE PRODIGAL’S RETURN.
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"Hide and Seek" was written by Wilkie Collins. It is classified as Essays, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classic Literature, British Literature, Victorian Literature, 19th Century Literature.
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