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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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Nigel Patterson is second only to Timothy West, that I have heard, for reading Trollope. I prefer Trollope's two series, Pallisers especially, and the standalone The Way we Live Now. Start there and with Timothy West if you're new to Trollope but I do recommend this for those who have already had the pleasure of those. I don't mean to be faint, it's just that those are so very good.

Very enjoyable

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I thought that no one could equal Timothy West’s Trollope narrations but Nigel Patterson’s portrayal of the abundant and wonderful characters is absolutely brilliant. Loved every minute of this audiobook

Wonderful story, superb narrator

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