
A Rogue's Life
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Narrated by:
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Bernard Mayes
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By:
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Wilkie Collins
Propelled into society by his ever-hopeful father, Frank is introduced to a variety of professions in order to make his fortune. Not industrious by nature, however, Frank finds working life a challenge, and by his 25th birthday, he has failed medicine, portrait-painting, caricaturing, and even forgery. Disenchanted with life, he despairs of ever finding something to commit to — until he meets Alicia Dulcifer and her inexplicably wealthy father.
Proffering his own take on picaresque storytelling — and with many a grain of truth for 20-somethings today — this is Wilkie Collins at his entertaining best.
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some laugh--out-loud passages
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We start by marveling at his nonchalance in the face of family displeasure and disinheritance. We raise our eyebrows at his natural aptitude for various criminal enterprises. We can’t help but half admire his invention and ingenuity. Finally, we (kinda-sorta) start rooting for him. “It’s a bold thing to say” opines our hero,” but nothing will ever persuade me that society has not a sneaking kindness for a rogue”.
A measure of the excellence of the entertainment on offer here is the fact that, despite a rather shopworn recording, I persisted in listening. I suggest you do the same; Bernard Mayes’ performance is well worth the effort. By the time our antihero is disowned by his family (chapter 2 or 3, I think), you won’t even notice that tinny sibilance.
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