At the Time Appointed

by Anna Maynard Barbour

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Genres: Audiobook

260 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1903

About the author

Anna Maynard Barbour (? -1941) was an American author of best-selling fiction. Anna Barbour was born in Mansfield, New York in the 19th century. Her parents died when she was young. During the late 19th century, she lived in Helena, Montana where she worked for the U. S. Government. She married an English gentleman in 1893, and her husband reportedly encouraged her writing career. In 1907 she became an Episcopal deaconess at the House of Mercy in Boston and subsequently worked in Boston and Tennessee. A 1903 article in the The Atlantic Monthly stated that "A. Maynard Barbour has been generally hailed as the most successful of American writers of mystery. "

Reviews

[Lily · Rating 1 out of 5]

I had started the book without paying much attention to the name of its writer since I selected it on an audio book repertoire and started listening to it.
The first chapters seemed promising of a well planned plot and an interesting read, but as I advanced in the chapters, the mushy romance in the love scenes and recounts started unfolding and the idealistic religious reveries of the characters made me wonder if the writer wasn't a woman of a certain epoch. I checked the name and found the author to be a woman alright, but I'm not sure whether she belongs to that epoch or was merely influenced by its writings. That epoch that I refer to is represented by a style, mostly adopted by female authors, where the story line is typically marked by mushy romances and where usually one heroine gets wasted and dies under the weights of unrequited yet faithful eternal love and another gets rewarded for a pure virtuous heart that awakens to a sudden overflowing love for no apparent reason and who sings that love to skies in prayers and in personal journals - where men are either super honourable, silent heroes or black villains with foreign tongues. And where the whole tale is enveloped in religious ideas of fate and patience and the sweetness of a god whose hidden wisdom was causing havoc all over the life stories of the heroes but whose tears of compassion could almost be detected falling from the story's skies on the heroes' heads... This book for me was a faithful representation of this type of writing. Needless to say, I didn't like it!

[Cathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh my! What a wnderful story! I'm no critique, and I definately do not have a way with words, so all I can say is that I adored this story!
I am loving listening to the public domain books....through iPad/iPhone app. At times the narrators leave a little to be desired, but all in all, since they are all volunteers, there is no complaint from me, and I can carry on with my chores etc while still reading...gotta love it.

[Hope · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wikipedia says Maynard was one of America's most successful mystery writers, but this turned out to be typical vintage fiction (complete with brain fever, amnesia, star-crossed lovers and train robbers). A little too sappy for me, BUT you have to hand it to the women in this book. They all suffer nobly and quietly - unlike the whiny heroines in most of today's novels.

[Perry Whitford · Rating 3 out of 5]

John Darrell, a mineralogist, witnesses the murder of a wealthy prospector's nephew and loses his memory after catching a fever. You just know that it's going to return in the nick of time.

This was certainly a well written novel, if a little too much in the florid style of the time. Despite opening with a murder, there was a decided lack of mystery thereafter, and little of much else besides. What there was came by the way of a gently blossoming romance between Darrell and Kathie Underwood, the daughter of the man who took him in when ill.

Overlong and sluggishly paced throughout, the characters were nearly all essentially good people, though not without their limitations. A rival to Kathie's affections was also involved in the murder, a mystery hiding in plain sight considering the very first clue gave it away. The plot contained one more convenient coincidence to round things up.

A decent enough read for a wet weekend.

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mystery, intrigue, and romance surround a man who loses all memory of his previous life during a train robbery. His new relationships, in the Wild West mining industry, weave intriguingly around foggy perceptions of his lost past. I loved this book, and listened to it as a free download from librivox.org.

[Josie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Like several other reviewers, I came across this as a free audiobook. Perhaps the Librivox blurb misled me - I went in expecting a conventional detective mystery, but after a few chapters the story bogs down in a slow, tropey romance couched in very florid prose. I think I only got a third of the way through before giving up.

[Sarah Dunsbee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Daft!

[Millie Chidester · Rating 4 out of 5]

For me, it was a page turner from beginning to end.