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The Way We Live Now

By: Anthony Trollope
Narrated by: Flo Gibson
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Everyone thinks Augustus Melmotte, a new arrival in London, is a wealthy financier - until he is caught in a forgery scheme.

This is a satirical look at immorality and dishonesty as Trollope saw them in the worlds of business, politics, journalism, literature, and society on his return from the colonies in 1872. Scoundrels, coquettes, swindlers, and intriguers abound in this novel, which is often called his masterpiece.

Public Domain (P)1995 Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
Classics Literary Fiction Fiction Witty
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"One of the great English Victorian novelists....A sharp but sympathetic observer of Victorian social and political life." (Daniel S. Burt, The Biography Book)

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wasted my credit!

I was looking forward to a orgy of hours listening to Trollope but did not notice the name of the reader or listen to a sample - silly me. i shall not listen to this book and would prefer if it were possible, to give it no stars at all. I will use my next months credit to download the same title but with a different reader.

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Disappointing

I love Trollope but the narrator renders this book boring and unlistenable. Please preview before you buy (I didn't but won't be making that mistake again!)

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Hopeless reading. Avoid

I agree completely with the other reviewers - a completely inappropriate accent, and not a very good reader either. I wouldn't even want to listen to her reading something appropriate like Edith Wharton. Why do publishers do it?

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Listen Before you Buy!

I agree with the majority of other reviews I have seen. For some reason the producers of this audio book have used an American lady who has a voice not particularly attractive itself and totally at odds with Trollope's prose. When I first heard it I wondered if somehow it had been downloaded at the wrong speed, because it sounds very much like a man's voice speeded up. This will be a lesson to me to make sure I listen to a sample of the reader's voice before purchasing in future!

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American takeover

This is so disappointing. It is difficult to imagine why an American female reader has been given the priviledge of reading Trollope. She reads too fast, uses American pronunciation and has a limited range of cadences that are inapproriate for the English language as opposed to American - yet I can see no version in English of this great novel. I shall struggle on developing my own interpretation as I go....

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Don't buy it!

Appalling and very disappointing. An awful American woman speaking far too quickly is an insult to Trollope and his wonderful writing - I've tried, but I can't bear to listen to it.

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