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Title: Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? by ELEANOR UPDALE, STEPHEN FRY ISBN: 0-8072-2369-7 Publisher: Listening Library Pub. Date: 24 February, 2004 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Looking for sequels
Comment: Fast paced and elegant, this novel packs plenty of believable detail into this story of a thief's transformation into a decent 'gentleman'. Quite enjoyable and well worth reading. I look forward to a sequel.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hoping for a sequel
Comment: Just finished this book and am hoping the author will bring her character back in future stories.
Set in Victorian England, this thief almost dies in a fall during a burglary. The doctor "puts him back together" and after serving his prison sentence, our thief becomes not only a "gentleman" but a daring burglar as well. Using the sewer system of London the burglar is very successful. He redeems himself with an act of courage and begins a new, honest, life.
Rating: 5
Summary: A DEVILISH, DELIGHTFUL VOCAL PERFORMANCE
Comment: What more can one possibly say about British wunderkind Stephen Fry? He's actor, director, novelist, journalist, comedian, raconteur, philanthropist, and he wears all of these hats with apparent ease. His credits for radio, television, and stage would fill a large volume. Most recently he adapted and directed Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies for film under the title of Bright Young Things.
Having had the pleasure of watching him as Jeeves in the 1990s BBC series Jeeves and Wooster, I was delighted to see his name on this audiobook. My delight was doubled as his inimitable voice related an imaginative, original adventure, a first novel from British TV producer Eleanor Updale.
Set in London during the Victorian era we meet an inept thief who has run out of luck - he tumbles through a glass roof in an aborted effort to escape the police. However, that's not the end of him - far from it. A skilled doctor puts his poor body back together, and then he is released from prison.
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? No more roofs for this fellow - he takes to London's underground sewer system, and using this labyrinth becomes the city's most mysterious burglar. Eventually, he masquerades as not one man but two - a rich, respected upper class gentleman, Montmorency, and his rapscallion servant, Scarper.
What a balancing act, and therein lies the tale.
- Gail Cooke
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Title: An American Plague : The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy ISBN: 0395776082 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 23 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread (NEWBERY MEDAL BOOK) by Kate Dicamillo, Timothy B. Ering ISBN: 0763617229 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Inkheart by Cornelia Funke, Anthea Bell ISBN: 0439531640 Publisher: Chicken House Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Bartimaeus Trilogy Book One: The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud ISBN: 078681859X Publisher: Miramax (Kids) Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg ISBN: 0689866364 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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