Ice: 50th Anniversary Edition Free Audiobook Download by Anna Kavan

This novel tells the story of Kit Moresby, an explorer and scientist who is returning from the frozen north. He has a secret with him – he has been slowly dying for years in order to avoid being killed by his rivals. As he returns to civilization, he realizes that nobody knows him anymore and that 'everything has changed'. His appearance, memories and beliefs are all different than they used to be.

Anne Kavan's 1967 novel, Ice, was described as "fantastic hallucination" by Jorge Luis Borges and is considered by some to be one of the 10 best novels of all time. The story follows Clare Morgan, an English wife who is living in Bangkok with her diplomat husband. Tired of her mundane life, she embarks on a journey through the obscure regions of her mind. As she becomes more detached from reality, she experiences a vast labyrinth where everyone hates everyone else. This edition of the audiobook also includes two essays by Margaret Atwood that were originally published in 1981 as "Approaches to Fiction" and "The Novels: Recent Trends in Feminist Criticism."

The book starts with a woman, Crystal, being released from a hospital. She is unable to remember anything about herself or her past. As she searches for the answers to her questions, the story takes the reader on a journey into the depths of madness. The book has been revived by modern readers for its surrealist prose and eerie atmosphere. Anna Kavan was published as Anthony Kavan in England and as Anna Kaven in America. Kavan is also well known for her experimental use of unreliable narrator perspectives and postmodern techniques of metafiction and self-consciousness.

The novel is split into two parts by the protagonist, who goes by the name of James and Dr. Raymond Morris. James tells his story in first-person narrative, which starts with him being committed to a mental hospital following a suicide attempt. Dr. Morris tells the opposite version from a third person perspective in which he diagnoses James as schizophrenic and recommends electroconvulsive therapy as treatment.

Ice: 50th Anniversary Edition is a classic by Anna Kavan that's been narrated by Nigel Patterson. The narrator has a voice that the listener will find soothing. The story is set in London, and follows a girl who's struggling to make it through life. One day she meets a doctor who offers her drugs to help her cope with the difficulties she faces. She becomes addicted, and spends years trying to get off of them.

Anna Kavan was a fairly obscure writer until the 1990s when her novel "Ice" became a cult hit. The book tells the story of a doctor named Robert who is recovering in a health clinic and then finds mysterious messages on his arm.