Is He Popenjoy ?


Lu par LibriVox Volunteers

(4.4 stars; 53 reviews)

Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues are complicated by the specter of possible illegitimacy. Lord George Germain, a thoroughly respectable, upstanding, if not particularly bright younger son with new wife, rather expects to inherit a title, since his vicious and dissolute elder brother, the Marquis of Brotherton, who lives in Italy, shows no signs of settling down and producing heirs. Then comes a thunderbolt in the form of a letter from the Marquis suddenly claiming that he has, late in life, married an Italian widow and sired a son. This little boy, if he is indeed legitimate, is Lord Popenjoy and the heir to the marquisate.

But is he legitimate? Are his parents in fact properly united in holy wedlock? And were they so at the time of his birth on alien soil? How on earth to find out? The book, which starts almost as a comedy of manners (and perhaps also a comedy of manors), takes on a darker and more sardonic tone with this mystery, and with some other suspected and actual romantic entanglements which are not entirely in the aristocratic Victorian rule-book. Among the large cast of characters are two memorable foreigners: the repellent German feminist Baroness Bannmann, and the rather more attractive American version, Amelia Q. Fleabody (not, of course, to be confused in any way with the real Elizabeth Peabody, who under another name, lies at the heart of Henry James's The Bostonians).(Summary by Nicholas Clifford) (20 hr 40 min)

Chapitres

01 - Introductory Number One 21:07 Lu par Barry O'Neill
02 - Introductory Number Two 19:10 Lu par Barry O'Neill
03 - Life at Manor Cross 20:24 Lu par bobolink
04 - At the Deanery 18:19 Lu par bobolink
05 - Miss Tallowax is Shown the House 22:23 Lu par Reeses118
06 - Bad Tidings 21:07 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
07 - Cross Hall Gate 17:15 Lu par bobolink
08 - Pugsby Brook 15:30 Lu par bobolink
09 - Mrs. Houghton 23:43 Lu par Barry O'Neill
10 - The Dean as a Sporting Man 13:46 Lu par Barry O'Neill
11 - Lord and Lady George go up to Town 20:54 Lu par bobolink
12 - Miss Mildmay and Jack de Baron 19:23 Lu par bobolink
13 - More News from Italy 17:20 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
14 - 'Are we to Call Him Popenjoy ?' 22:57 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
15 - 'Drop It' 20:16 Lu par Barry O'Neill
16 - All is Fish that Comes to his Net 16:33 Lu par Barry O'Neill
17 - The Disabilities 19:24 Lu par Reeses118
18 - Lord George up in London 19:38 Lu par Reeses118
19 - Rather 'Boisterous' 19:04 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
20 - Between Two Stools 18:07 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
21 - The Marquis Comes Home 21:45 Lu par Barry O'Neill
22 - The Marquis Amongst Friends 20:14 Lu par Barry O'Neill
23 - The Marquis Sees his Brother 20:56 Lu par Barry O'Neill
24 - The Marquis Goes into Bretherton 17:39 Lu par Barry O'Neill
25 - Lady Susanna in London 18:45 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
26 - The Dean Returns to Town 20:15 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
27 - The Baroness Banmann Again 20:37 Lu par CrowGirl
28 - What Matter if She Does' 17:16 Lu par CrowGirl
29 - Mr. Houghton Wants a Glass of Sherry 22:02 Lu par NoelBadrian
30 - The Dean is Very Busy 14:11 Lu par Rebecca Thomas
31 - The Marquis Migrates to London 19:40 Lu par bobolink
32 - Lord George is Troubled 27:20 Lu par bobolink
33 - Captain de Baron 19:11 Lu par Barry O'Neill
34 - A Dreadful Communication 18:18 Lu par Barry O'Neill
35 - 'I Deny It' 23:56 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
36 - Popenjoy is Popenjoy 23:12 Lu par novelreader
37 - Preparations for the Ball 18:42 Lu par Rebecca Thomas
38 - The Kappa Kappa 18:14 Lu par Rebecca Thomas
39 - Rebellion 17:57 Lu par Barry O'Neill
40 - As to Bluebeard 22:03 Lu par Barry O'Neill
41 - Scumberg's 22:37 Lu par bobolink
42 - 'Not Go!' 24:20 Lu par bobolink
43 - Real Love 10:52 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
44 - What the Brotherton Clergymen Said About It. 14:42 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
45 - Lady George at the Deanery 16:56 Lu par Steve Gough
46 - Lady Sarah's Mission 23:04 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
47 - That Young Fellow in There 15:29 Lu par Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
48 - The Marquis Makes a Proposition 23:30 Lu par fshort
49 - 'Wouldn't you Come Here - For a Week ?' 14:11 Lu par Rebecca Thomas
50 - Rudham Park 19:02 Lu par Rebecca Thomas
51 - Guss Mildmay's Success 23:49 Lu par S.Nevets
52 - Another Lover 10:46 Lu par Rebecca Thomas
53 - Poor Popenjoy 16:22 Lu par bobolink
54 - Jack de Baron's Virtue 15:50 Lu par bobolink
55 - How Could He Help It 23:21 Lu par Maggie Smallwood
56 - Sir Henry Said it was the Only Thing 22:14 Lu par Maggie Smallwood
57 - Mr. Knox Hears Again from the Marquis 18:20 Lu par Barry O'Neill
58 - Mrs. Jones' Letter 18:21 Lu par Barry O'Neill
59 - Back in London 22:36 Lu par novelreader
60 - The Last of the Baroness 22:03 Lu par novelreader
61 - The News Comes Home 25:38 Lu par Barry O'Neill
62 - The Will 13:47 Lu par Barry O'Neill
63 - Popenjoy is Born and Christened 21:59 Lu par bobolink
64 - Conclusion 11:40 Lu par bobolink

Critiques

LibriVox is a no whining zone


(5 stars)

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Readers (most) fantastic; awful story


(2 stars)

Ive been a lover of Trollope for over 30 years and this is by far the most disappointing work of his Ive ever encountered. Cringe-y gender dynamics, awful women characters, thoroughly ungratifying story lacking interesting plot twists and tying loose ends. But by far the worst is the number of major characters who either hope for or delight in the death of a little 1/2 Italian child, and the birth of the 100% English one who replaces him is supposed to be a happy ending. The readers are what keeps one engaged, save two who only read one chapter apiece but insist on amateur theatrics (and get the interpretations all wrong because theyre bad at it and haven't read the rest of the book). But truly, lovers of Trollope can skip this one without any self-recrimination or remorse.

I know I finished it


(3 stars)

I'm not whining. I swear, but this book is so convoluted, and most of the characters so repellent, that the most salient memory I have is of those whistling ssss's! Maybe a filter on the microphone? It's a muddled melodrama of a plot, and toward the end I think even the author got tired of navigating through it.


(2 stars)

so sorry but bobolink really should review his reading,his ssssss are unbearable ,cannot continue, listening . I am such a great fan of librevox.

is he popenjoy


(4 stars)

Easy listening, enjoyable but not his best I would say...


(5 stars)

an absolutely perfect reading of a perfectly lovely book. thank you

Why do so many readers have difficulty pronouncing the word marquis?


(5 stars)


(4 stars)

Bobolink reads so softly that it ruins the chapters he reads.