5/30/2023 0 Comments The Professor by Charlotte Brontë![]() ![]() Davidson is the only reader I've found who pauses briefly to provide an on-the-fly translation of this dialogue - and who does it without seeming to interrupt the flow or the pace in any way. (Listening to him reading the Richard Sharpe novels was another treat.) He delivers the goods on this one too, with one additional grace note: Charlotte Brontë often peppers her dialogue with paragraphs of untranslated French. It wasn't till I heard him read Great Expectations that I became a fan. As I've said in other reviews, Frederick Davidson is an acquired taste. ![]() The book tells the story of a young man named William Crimsworth, from his formative years to his appointment as a teacher at an all-girls school. And the abrupt ending isn't really much of a problem, because it's clear that the story arc is nearly finished, and the characters have all ended up in a highly satisfying configuration. The Professor was Charlotte Bront's first novel, written before Jane Eyre but rejected by publishers until after her death. ![]() And it's remarkable too in having a completely credible male first-person narrator: in my experience, it's risky for writers to cross genders like that in first-person mode. The Professor ends abruptly, but it's otherwise an excellent story. I got this partly because I wanted to finish up all the Brontë novels (in advance of tonight's broadcast of To Walk Invisible) and partly because I wanted to hear something read by Frederick Davidson. ![]()
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