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THE HISTORY OF MR. POLLY

Earphones Award Winner

by | Read by Clive Swift

Classics • 3 hrs. • Abridged • ©

In addition to his celebrated science fiction, H.G. Wells wrote a number of superb satires, not the least of which is this chronicle of a working-class nebish who, in bungling his own suicide, finds escape from his humdrum existence. The inspired Clive Swift romps sardonically through a very fine cutting of the text. Through his unflagging concentration, brilliant characterizations, flawless comic timing and indefinable genius, Swift not only animates the story, but also creates an entire world to repose it in, one you can see as he speaks. He plays all of the subtext. Not a nuance is missing. Moreover, where Wells in droll and clever, Swift is hir=larious and witty. He takes a fine, if not magnificent, property and embuing it with his own personality, transforms it into something better. His performence of this book is more of an achievement than the book itself. Y.R. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: JAN 98]

Retail pak • Penguin Audiobooks • 1996

CS ISBN 0140861742 $16.95 • Two cassettes

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Retail pak • Penguin Audiobooks • 1996

CS ISBN 0140861742 $16.95 • Two cassettes

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