AUDIO

Wessex Tales

by Thomas Hardy
8 CDs retail ed. 10½ hrs. Naxos Audio. 2012. ISBN 9781843795834. $54.98; digital download. CLASSICS
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Hardy's collection of stories takes place in an imaginative locale, Wessex, based on the area around the author's home in Dorchester, England. Combining the real with the imagined, Hardy unfurls the ironies of everyday life; his introduction gives the listener an appreciation of what is to come. Neville Jason, an experienced actor and reader, is virtually flawless in rendering these vignettes. His diction, pacing, and inflection are spot-on, glorifying these tales of love, death, and the seeming supernatural and presenting the listener with a veritable audio Masterpiece Theatre. The dialog is rendered as ably as the narrative.
VERDICT Academic libraries will want to include this one; public libraries should definitely consider.
Reviewed by Michael T. Fein, Central Virginia Community Coll., Lynchburg , Nov 01, 2012
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