![The Vicar of Wakefield | [Oliver Goldsmith]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pLL8u383L._SL175_.jpg "The Vicar of Wakefield | [Oliver Goldsmith]")
The Vicar of Wakefield
- UNABRIDGED
- by
- Narrated by
-
Your Likes make Audible better!
'Likes' are shared on Facebook and Audible.com. We use your 'likes' to improve Audible.com for all our listeners.
You can turn off Audible.com sharing from your Account Details page.
OK
- Regular Price :$17.47Special Offer: Learn how to get this for $7.49 !
-
Average Customer Rating
-
-
LENGTH7 hrs and 14 mins
-
RELEASE DATE09-11-06
-
AUDIO FORMATS
-
Program TypeAudiobook
-
PUBLISHER
People who bought this also bought...
![Jane Eyre [Brilliance Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413myKjSdFL._SL95_.jpg)
Publisher's Summary
The story opens in the country parsonage of Dr. Primrose, a kindly man who has a good heart, a good family, and a good income. Suddenly, his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of misfortunes, and he ends up in prison. Yet, despite all this calamity and injustice, the vicar never loses sight of Christian morality, a conviction which lends him genuine nobility and, in the end, also brings justice and the restoration of his family and fortune.
Through this simple, almost fairy-tale plot, Goldsmith gives us a charming comedy. It is not a novel of sentiment but an artful send-up of many of the familiar literary conventions of his day: the pastoral scene, the artificial romance, the unquestioning stoic bravery of the hero—all culminating in a gloriously improbable dénouement.
Narrators include: Susan McCarthy, Tim King, Kevin Kennedy, James Aylward, Lou Spiegel, Lauralee Westaway, Linda Montgomery, Al Bedrosian, David Thorn, and Bobbie Frohman.
(P)2006 Alcazar AudioWorks
More from the same
What Members Say
-
Michael San Diego, CA, United States 09-17-06 Member Since 2005I'm an RN: Retired Nurse (-: Living the good life. I'm enjoying my hobbies: playing music and Photography, I do a lot of both in beautiful Balboa Park. I listen to Audible books during my 2 mile walk to the gym; 4 days a week, and during my boring workouts! I like movies, theater, cooking, my friends and my cat; not necessarily in that order, and life in general.
- HELPFUL VOTES
- 67
- ratings
- REVIEWS
- 38
- 23
"Amateur"
The narrator, David Thorn, reads magnificently in the character of the 18th “Vicar of Wakefield”, He has a wonderfully soft, rich, and decidedly “proper English” accent.
I listened to this book with great delight for 23 minutes, at which point I was suddenly jarred from my reverie by a character in a loud, course, American, accent.
The readers that followed were less course but no less affected, wooden and artificial. Oddly the readers in this 18th century English novel, sounded more American to me than English.
To make matters worse the readings were disjoined and sounded like they were made at separate locations, with unmatched microphones; then patched together at some later date.
In fact, because the Narrator’s performance is of such a high caliber, the rest of the production seems even more amateurish and annoying.
Sadly I could not continue beyond 45 minutes.20 of 20 people found this review helpful