Sybil

by Benjamin Disraeli

Overview

Sybil, or The Two Nations is one of the finest novels to depict the social problems of class-ridden Victorian England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9791222425795
Publisher:	Passerino
Publication date:	07/13/2023
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Tim Bentinck is an English actor best known for his role as David Archer in the BBC Radio 4 series, The Archers. Other acting credits include his portrayal of Tom Lacey in the BBC drama, By the Sword Divided and as the original Minister in The Thick of It.

Editorial Reviews

Disraeli, like his later peer Churchill, made his reputation as a writer before entering Parliament. His political fame easily eclipsed his novelistic reputation, and this audiobook gives us a fair understanding of why. Many of its secondary characters are so similar that even narrator Tim Bentinck's many tones and accents cannot help listeners distinguish them, and no one could do much with the digressions into British constitutional history. The major characters, despite Bentinck's efforts, are pretty monochromatic, the heroes unnaturally good and the villains totally bad. And while the lectures on Chartism and the obligations of the wealthy toward the poor may have been fascinating when the book was new (1845), they have lost their immediacy. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

OCTOBER 2019 - AudioFile

Disraeli, like his later peer Churchill, made his reputation as a writer before entering Parliament. His political fame easily eclipsed his novelistic reputation, and this audiobook gives us a fair understanding of why. Many of its secondary characters are so similar that even narrator Tim Bentinck's many tones and accents cannot help listeners distinguish them, and no one could do much with the digressions into British constitutional history. The major characters, despite Bentinck's efforts, are pretty monochromatic, the heroes unnaturally good and the villains totally bad. And while the lectures on Chartism and the obligations of the wealthy toward the poor may have been fascinating when the book was new (1845), they have lost their immediacy. D.M.H. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

OCTOBER 2019 - AudioFile