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Snobs
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Julian Fellowes
Narrated by
Richard Morant
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10 hrs and 44 mins
Audible Release Date
01-31-05
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3.96 based on 46 ratings
 

Publisher's Summary

Edith Lavery, the pretty daughter of an accountant, meets gossip-column favorite Charles Broughton (Earl of Broughton and heir to the Marquess of Uckfield) at Ascot. When he proposes and she accepts, does she really love him, or is she merely dazzled by his title and money?

In a tale that mixes contemporary Jane Austen with the brilliant social commentary of Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes chronicles Edith's rise and fall with twists and turns aplenty. Through the eyes of his narrator, a journeyman actor who manages to negotiate the choppy waters of snobbery and excess as he moves between the upper and middle classes, in Snobs Fellowes gives us a delicious comedy of manners to rival Oscar Wilde at his wittiest.

Includes a bonus interview with Julian Fellowes, the Academy Award-winning author of Gosford Park.

©2005 Julian Fellowes; (P)2005 BBC Audiobooks Ltd.

What the Critics Say

"Mr. Fellowes knows his turf well." (Dominick Dunne)
"Provocative, titillating, and seductive." (The Spectator)
"Sparklingly rompish....As long as this world does still exist, Fellowes is a delectable guide to its absurdities." (Sunday Times [London])

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Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0 "A very pleasant listen"
By: Jana (Zephyrhills)
September 21, 2008
This was a very enjoyable book from start to finish. It was very well read by the narrator and the story clips along at a good pace. I liked the characters and the story, which is an entertaining, and often funny, account of ambition,the consequances of choices made, and of course, snobbery in near present-day England. It was also a bit of fun to see somewhat behind the curtain of the British mid-royals (not the level of the queen).
Rating 5.0Rating 5.0Rating 5.0Rating 5.0Rating 5.0 "Novel of Manners for the 21st century "
By: Linda (USA)
July 21, 2008
A novel about the manners about the "haute bourgeois" and the british aristocracy, Fellowes is following the footsteps of Austen, Trollope, and other 19th century novelists, and doing it very very well. The book is humorous but not hysterically funny, but is also, in my experience, true. The behaviors, concerns, desires of the characters repeat themselves in the US as well. I have a few minor literary quibbles, but repeat, minor. Its also exceedingly well read, with much subtlety.
Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0Rating 4.0 "Study on British Class System"
By: Elizabeth (Chattanooga, TN, USA)
October 25, 2007
A sociological study as much as a work of fiction, this novel deconstructs the "happy-ever-after" fairy tale of the untitled beauty who snares an aristocrat and is instantly transported into the stratosphere of social privilege. I would buy it again for Fellowes' almost compulsive interest in the habits and dysfunctions of the upper classes. Fellowes is sympathetic to his characters, regardless of their flaws. Yet I found it difficult to really care deeply about any of them.
Rating 5.0Rating 5.0Rating 5.0Rating 5.0Rating 5.0 "Perfect Contemporary English Fiction"
By: Nancy (Lake Forest, IL, USA)
October 15, 2007
This was a great listen! It's a story of contemporary London, and has the "haves" mixing with the "have-nots" -- a wonderfully written (and read) glimpse into the politics of relationships and families in English society.
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Rating 5.0Rating 5.0Rating 5.0Rating 5.0Rating 5.0 "A Great "
By: Karla (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
June 11, 2006
A fascinating tour through the inner workings of the English upper-upper class, replete with old aristocrats and social climbers, the rich and the riche, sprawling country homes and expensive London flats. Told quietly by a keen observer, with a wide array of well-written characters, Snobs is a National Geographic special on the strange customs and rituals of the landed-gentry and their hangers-on. I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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