The Devil in the White CityMurder, Magic, Madness, And The Fair That Changed America
- Narrated by
Tony Goldwyn
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- Edition:
- Abridged (Random House Audio)
- Length:
- 6 hours, 6 minutes
- File Size:
- 167 MB (5 files)
- Published:
- May 2005
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Review by Sarah Weinman, eMusic
A compulsive page turner that chronicles the changing face of America at the dawn of the 20th century.
Never was truth more stranger than fiction than the story of one of America's earliest serial killers, the man calling himself H.H. Holmes (though Herman Mudgett was his real, more mundane name.) While the World's Fair was entertaining hundreds of thousands of visitors in 1893 Chicago, Holmes entertained himself in diabolical fashion by torturing and murdering over a dozen unlucky souls at a nearby hotel. Instead of a standard true crime novel, The Devil in the White City is something greater thanks to Larson's masterstroke of alternating the increasing terror of Holmes' crimes and architect Daniel Burnham's quest to create an imaginary city on the grounds of the World's Fair. The result, read in somewhat workmanlike fashion by Tony Goldwyn, unites diverse components to make a concerted point about the changing face of America at the dawn of the 20th century.
Never was truth more stranger than fiction than the story of one of America's earliest serial killers, the man calling himself H.H. Holmes (though Herman Mudgett was his real, more mundane name.) While the World's Fair was entertaining hundreds of thousands of visitors in 1893 Chicago, Holmes entertained himself in diabolical fashion by torturing and murdering over a dozen unlucky souls at a nearby hotel. Instead of a standard true crime novel, The Devil in the White City is something greater thanks to Larson's masterstroke of alternating the increasing terror of Holmes' crimes and architect Daniel Burnham's quest to create an imaginary city on the grounds of the World's Fair. The result, read in somewhat workmanlike fashion by Tony Goldwyn, unites diverse components to make a concerted point about the changing face of America at the dawn of the 20th century.
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