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Dr. Thorne and Framley Parsonage : Barchester Chronicles, Volume 1 (BBC) |
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This dramatization of Dr. Thorne and Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope presents listeners with a playful romp through late-19th-century English country life. Trollope, who felt the chief purpose of a book was to be readable, would no doubt be pleased with this eminently ear-friendly production of his work. Read by English actors and highlighted with background music, the clip-clop of horse hooves, and the rumblings of villagers, this audio version--originally conceived for BBC Radio--has the feel of Masterpiece Theater. Against the backdrop of the universal search for a perfect love, the stories of Dr. Thorne and Framley Parsonage offer a satirical look at the English class system. Rife with irony and populated by virtuous heroines, good uncles, impossible mothers, and the usual louts, these stories are distinguished by Trollope's fine dialogue and pacing. While the plot of Dr. Thorne is rather predictable, things do heat up in Framley Parsonage: bailiffs come knocking on the overly ambitious clergyman's door, and we fear that his compassionate sister may contract typhoid fever as she escapes the wrath of her betrothed's mother. The frailties of human nature are, of course, timeless. As a scene with a scheming campaign manager in Dr. Thorne demonstrates, the overly mannered, oft-frivolous, and ever hypocritical Victorian world created by Trollope is not so far-removed from today's world as a listener might think. ( Four tapes; running time: 225 minutes)
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