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The Claverings
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 20 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
At the opening of The Claverings (1866) the beautiful Julia Brabazon jilts her lover Harry Clavering in order to make a marriage of convenience with a wealthy but dissolute earl. Harry licks his wounds, leaves London to train as a civil engineer, and falls in love with his employer's daughter, to whom he soon becomes engaged. But when Julia returns unexpectedly as a wealthy widow, the flame of Harry's old love is rekindled.
In his depiction of this quintessential love triangle, Anthony Trollope digs deep into the psychological make-up of a wonderful array of flawed characters: emotionally strong, determined women whose only prospects depend on making an advantageous marriage; a weak-willed, vacillating anti-hero who in a moment of weakness makes an impossible promise; and a memorable cast of secondary characters, from a suspected Russian spy and a feckless gambler to a zealous evangelical clergyman.
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- AReader
- 04-08-20
Not Trollope's best, but still good
The performance is pretty good - different characters but some wrong emphases..
The book itself has major flaws. Spoiler alert - an upper class girl with no money refuses to marry a young man she loves because they have no income. He is immature, a bit idle and completely unrealistic too. She later makes a marriage for money. This is supposed to be unwomanly on her part - but what was she supposed to do? Trollope punishes her for life and rewards the young man, who unexpectedly inherits a fortune and after some dithering marries a middle class girl who adores him suitably. An obsessively religious curate who glories in being poor also is suddenly made marriageable. It's all a bit silly. I enjoyed it anyway.
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- Richard H
- 01-05-20
Disappointing
Not one of Trollope’s great works. A fairly puny story, with too much padding.
The narration was grating, hardly ever putting the emphasis on the right syllable, so you even started to wonder if English was his first language.
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- mrs m.
- 07-01-23
Good performance enjoyable story
Quite a good story but not one of his best. Well narrated. Worth a listen!
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-08-24
Enjoyable
But I wish it had been read by Timothy West who is a superb narrator of Trollope. This reader strangely but regularly emphasised the wrong words in a sentence, laying strange stress particularly on pronouns. This interfered with my enjoyment of the novel somewhat. However I am a huge Trollope fan and as such became thoroughly engaged with all of the plots, characters and themes of this work . . . just as I am with all of his novels.
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- Isobel
- 26-06-19
Another satisfying Trollope
I do love the way his stories always deposit the worthy characters in justified bliss and dispose of the evil ones in well-deserved ordure. The journey is always very satisfying. The narrator for this one was adequate but there was little distinction between some of the ‘voices’ at times, and clearly the upper crust voices were a challenge that sometimes didn’t quite convince, which was a teeny bit distracting.
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- Lisa
- 15-11-21
Great story
Great Tollop story could not put it down and beautifully narrated by Nigel Patterson
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- Christopher Leach
- 07-02-19
Excellent reading, of a mediocre Trollope
so good to have an English reader of supremely English literature
Flo Gibson is an anathema to Trollope's pure prose, her accent and poor syntax grates on the ear
please record Trollope with a reader, sympathetic to his style
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- sue Sargent
- 31-03-19
very good
enjoyable, good narration except for the voice of Sophi, I found that s little odd almost amusing. fantastic story.
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- nicola spiers
- 14-11-23
Lots to enjoy
On the second time of reading this book, I have really appreciated Trollope's humour. Sophie Goldalu is a wonderful character, brought to life by the narrator, and Archie Clavering is an endearing cousin of Bertie Wooster. Trollope takes the old story of a love triangle and uses it to contrast the monied and working classes, and show how it is women that often drive family affairs. A thoroughly enjoyable novel. It's a shame the narration, Ms Goldalu apart, is a little stilted, especially in the early chapters.
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- steve
- 11-07-22
Disappointing
After listening to the majority of this authors wonderful audible books this was by far the most boring, long winded and drawn out piece of work imaginable. Very well narrated but the characters and dialogue were excruciatingly painful. This overblown story could have been told in half the time. Not recommended.
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