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The Claverings

By: Anthony Trollope
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
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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.

Public Domain (P)2018 Nigel Patterson Classics Drama & Plays European World Literature

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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.

Not Trollope's best, but still good

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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.

Enjoyable

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Quite a good story but not one of his best. Well narrated. Worth a listen!

Good performance enjoyable story

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This is not top drawer Trollope but it is a good read and an interesting picture of mid Victorian mores. The characters are believable and the narrator certainly brought them to life- Sophie Gourdeloupe is a comic character with whom the narrator has lots of fun. It ends joyously thanks to what might be seen as a deus ex machina. The good end happily, the bad unhappily - that is what fiction is all about.

An entertaining story brought to life by the narration

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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.

Disappointing

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Trollope is not a concise writer. His stories do tend to ramble and this is part of their appeal. I have listened again and again to this one and always enjoy it. The resolution of the plot is so satisfying and while Harry is a very flawed hero, to the extent that one finds oneself frustrated by what the lovely young Mrs Burton coyly calls his unsteadiness, it ends with him getting more good fortune than he deserves. There is humour and humanity. The narration is fine. It isn’t the very best but to my mind it is good enough.

A very enjoyable performance

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I returned this eventually due to the narrator. If only Timothy West had recorded more Trollope

Great story, annoying narration

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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.

Another satisfying Trollope

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Great Tollop story could not put it down and beautifully narrated by Nigel Patterson

Great story

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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

Excellent reading, of a mediocre Trollope

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