EPISODE · Dec 19, 2023 · 30 MIN
Lord Jim at Home by Dinah Brooke
from Listen to Best Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Psychological · host Nikita Schamberger
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lord Jim at Home Author: Dinah Brooke Narrator: Ottessa Moshfegh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: 'A brilliant, chilling picture of the English middle class at home.' —Illustrated London News When Dinah Brooke's second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as 'squalid and startling,' 'nastily horrific,' and a 'monstrous parody' of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day—like the hero of Joseph Conrad's classic Lord Jim—commits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question. Out of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), Lord Jim at Home reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power. As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, Brooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty 'in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand.'
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/714368 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Lord Jim at Home Author: Dinah Brooke Narrator: Ottessa Moshfegh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 55 minutes Release date: December 19, 2023 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: 'A brilliant, chilling picture of the English middle class at home.' —Illustrated London News When Dinah Brooke's second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as 'squalid and startling,' 'nastily horrific,' and a 'monstrous parody' of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day—like the hero of Joseph Conrad's classic Lord Jim—commits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question. Out of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), Lord Jim at Home reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power. As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, Brooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty 'in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand.'
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