Our Mutual Friend
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Our Mutual Friend
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Narrated by:
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Philippe Duquenoy
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By:
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Charles Dickens
About this listen
John Harmon, the heir to the Harmon estate discovers that his father's will requires him to marry Bella Wilfer, a woman whom he's never met, in order to claim his inheritance. But, when the body of a young man is found in the River Thames, his papers identify him as the heir to the Harmon estate, and Bella's hopes to marry into riches are diminished, and she's then pursued by a mysterious John Rokesmith.
What will happen to the inheritance and will it change people's lives for better or worse? What will become of Bella, the girl the dead man was supposed to marry? And what is the mysterious Mr. Rokesmith hiding?
Dickens' final book warns of the corrupting effects of money and ambition, set among the high society of Victorian London. It is full of colorful characters and exciting plot twists. Strangely, the original manuscript of this book had to be rescued from the remains of a train crash in which Dickens was involved.
Public Domain (P)2017 A.R.N. PublicationsWhat listeners say about Our Mutual Friend
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 20-10-2021
terrible narration
Our Mutual Friend is a book I haven't read before and I could not keep listening. In every sentence, the voice of the narrator, Philippe Duquenoy, has identical cadences, registers of tone, very little variation in accents, none in genders, so it was not only soporifically monotonous but impossible to tell which characters are which, in a book stuffed full of different characters. The humour that I detected was never brought out and I cannot tell whether I like the book or not. I shall try to read it now.
It is a mystery to me how such a recording passed whatever test these readings must undergo. I listened to a sample but it was not long enough to tell how bad it was.
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