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The White Monkey
- The Forsyte Chronicles, Book 4
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Summary
Meanwhile, Soames Forsyte, as a director of the Providential Premium Reassurance Society, must root out the rumored indiscretions of a manager's dubious dealings with the Germans. The whole while, he is haunted by a painting of a white monkey with rinds of crushed fruit flung about it - and with eyes searching for something more.
John Galsworthy received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932.
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"[Galsworthy] has carried the history of his time through three generations, and his success in mastering so excellently his enormously difficult material, both in its scope and in its depth, remains an extremely memorable feat in English literature." (Anders Osterling, Nobel Prize presentation speech, 1932)
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-02-24
Great novel, irritating narration
The novel is an excellent instalment of the Forsyte Saga, very evocative of the period, profound, readable, and beautifully written. Recording is let down by the reader’s rather affected style, especially grating when voicing the female characters - he makes Fleur come across very unsympathetically - very frustrating given that Galsworthy is always humane in his portrayal of women. He also constantly mispronounces her name in a strange variety of ways. He also reads too fast - I had to slow the recording down to do justice to Galsworthy’s rich prose. But overall, the novel is definitely worth tolerating the narration.
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- E. Jalal
- 22-04-24
Rather disappointing
Found this book- number 4 in the Forsyte Saga- rather ‘different’ to the first 3. I’m not sure if it was because of the narrator, David Case, who I didn’t like as much as Neil Hunt, the narrator of the first 3 Audible books I downloaded, or if it was because Galsworthy’s writing style had changed. Whatever the reason, this book did not fill me with as much joy as the others and overall was a tad disappointing. However, I’m glad I read it and am about to begin the next one in the saga.
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- Alison
- 02-04-14
Fashionable life in the 1920s
Gives a very good feel of life at the time, and the story grips you once you've got into it.
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- Tamara Djordjevic
- 14-02-21
Highly enjoyable if you like the narrator's style
The story is excellent but read with too much affectation for my liking. I'm afraid I'll have to put up with David Case's style of reading for the rest of the trilogy. Preview recommended.
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- Morag Smith
- 07-07-23
Reader’s style very off putting
I found the reading style of this impossible to listen to-very affected and over acted, even though I lived the other Galsworthy books.
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