London Tradesmen
Anthony Trollope
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This book is a series of sketches written by Anthony Trollope near the end of his life, reprinted and collected. Each sketch is an essay on a particular type of London tradesman. This series reflects Trollope's earlier protests in The Way We Live Now against the new, commercialized England of the 1870s. The essays all mourn the replacement of the small individual shopkeeper of the past with advertisers, department stores, and door-to-door salesmen. - Summary by Elsie Selwyn (2 hr 25 min)
Chapters
Foreword | 9:28 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Tailor | 15:31 | Read by jenno |
The Chemist | 15:23 | Read by jenno |
The Butcher | 11:17 | Read by John |
The Plumber | 11:04 | Read by John |
The Horsedealer | 12:01 | Read by John |
The Publican | 11:20 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
The Fishmonger | 13:34 | Read by Cynthia Malone |
The Greengrocer | 11:31 | Read by Cynthia Malone |
The Wine Merchant | 11:33 | Read by harrisoncotis |
The Coal Merchant | 10:44 | Read by harrisoncotis |
The Haberdasher | 12:02 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
Reviews
excellent narration
Bill Cosby
Interesting vinette from 1870s life. However it needs to remade to have lots of gay sex and oppressed nonbinary BIPOCs, to comply with current diversity, equity and inclusion stasndards, as espoused by Warren Buffet.
well done narrators
Grace
I used to be a f****** trader at f****** billingsgate f****** fish market.That f****** has not f****** changed one f****** iota