The Patrician

By: John Galsworthy

Narrated by: David Beed

"The Patrician" (1911) is a historical romance by John Galsworthy.

Excerpt from the book:

"Light, entering the vast room - a room so high that its carved ceiling refused itself to exact scrutiny - travelled, with the wistful, cold curiosity of the dawn, over a fantastic storehouse of Time. Light, unaccompanied by the prejudice of human eyes, made strange revelation of incongruities, as though illuminating the dispassionate march of history. For in this dining hall - one of the finest in England - the Caradoc family had for centuries assembled the trophies and records of their existence.

Here alone they had left virgin the work of the old quasi-monastic builders, and within it unconsciously deposited their souls. For there were here, meeting the eyes of light, all those rather touching evidences of man’s desire to persist for ever, those shells of his former bodies, the fetishes and queer proofs of his faiths, together with the remorseless demonstration of their treatment at the hands of Time."

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Good Galsworthy novel, tinny sound

Not my favorite Galsworthy but his typical rich and thick description and character portraiture for which he is famous. So I recommend it for his fans. The narrator does a great job but the tinny sound is grating, and words are not ways clear; hence the low cost for the book. I had to download the Gutenberg Reader version of the book to catch words and phrases I had trouble understanding.
Would love to see this audio edited if possible to wipe out the tin. Or for Beed to redo it.