Our mutual friend
Record details
- ISBN: 9626344423
- ISBN: 9789626344422
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [Franklin, Tenn.] : Naxos AudioBooks, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 36:33:03. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by David Timson. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 525261 KB; MP3 file size: 1029322 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction Social classes -- Fiction Poor families -- Fiction Deception -- Fiction England -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
- AudioFile Reviews : AudioFile Reviews 2008 June/July
David Timson welcomes you into mid-Victorian London in this superb production of Charles Dickens's OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. This story of intrigue, love, greed, and murder centers on the violent death of a man who stands to inherit a great deal of money and its impact on multiple people at various levels of society. A one-man full cast, Timson creates a large number of entertaining characters--ranging from Mr. Boffin, the "Golden Dustman" who inherits the dead man's fortune and is seemingly corrupted by it, to Silas Wegg, the grifter with a wooden leg, and the unflappable but abused secretary, John Rokesmith. Timson is equally adept at creating women's voices for a variety of believable and distinct female characters. Never a dull moment. A.B. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2008 April #4
David Timson reads Dickens's last complete novel with a sense of fun. As always, Dickens creates a fabulous array of characters: the nouveau riche Veneerings, the dwarf who makes doll clothes, the bizarre schoolmaster, and the abysmally poor who trawl the Thames for bodies or daily sift the dust and dirt of Victorian England for a skimpy living. Timson's dramatic talents add dimension to each personalityâjust the sort of acting that makes an audio experience so satisfying. Naxos has done a fine job of abridging the book (Timson also reads the unabridged version on 28 CDs). Not much is lost in terms of plot and characterization, and Dickens's great satiric and social themes come through clearly: the plight and misery of the poor and the greed and heartless stupidity of the rich. If the abridgment seems a bit disjointed, it simply follows the novel's narrative style. This is a wonderful listen for Dickens fans and novices alike. (Mar.)
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