Category: Adults, General Fiction, Horror
Language: EnglishKeywords: British Literature Satire
Written by Dinah Brooke
Read by Ottessa Moshfegh
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
“A brilliant, chilling picture of the English middle class at home.”âIllustrated London News
When Dinah Brooke’s second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as “squalid and startling,” “nastily horrific,” and a “monstrous parody” of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one dayâlike the hero of Joseph Conrad’s classic Lord Jimâcommits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question.
Out of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), Lord Jim at Home reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power. As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, Brooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty “in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand.”
Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
Release date: 12-19-23
“A brilliant, chilling picture of the English middle class at home.”âIllustrated London News
When Dinah Brooke’s second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as “squalid and startling,” “nastily horrific,” and a “monstrous parody” of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one dayâlike the hero of Joseph Conrad’s classic Lord Jimâcommits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question.
Out of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), Lord Jim at Home reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power. As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, Brooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty “in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand.”
Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
Release date: 12-19-23