The Siege of Krishnapur [Audiobook] download free by J.G. Farrell
- Listen audiobook: The Siege of Krishnapur
- Author: J.G. Farrell
- Release date: 2008/9/4
- Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Fiction
- ISBN: 9781857994919
- Rating: 8.07 of 10
- Votes: 394
- Review by: Draven Shore
- Review rating: 9.39 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/22
- Duration: 5H4M41S in 256 kbps (80 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-31
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WavPack, MP3, WAV, MPEG4, FLAC, WMA (compression RAR, Z, ZIP, JAR)
- Total pages original book: 400
- Includes a PDF summary of 37 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 28M52S (7.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military cantonment rise in revolt and the British community retreats with shock into the Residency. They prepare to fight for their lives with what weapons they can muster. As food and ammunition grow short, the Residency, its defences battered by shot and shell and eroded by the rains, becomes ever more vulnerable.The Siege of Krishnapur is a modern classic of narrative excitement that also digs deep to explore some fundamental questions of civilisation and life.'Suspense and subtlety, humour and horror, the near-neighbourliness of heroism and insanity: it is rare to find such divergent elements being controlled in one hand and being raced, as it were, in one yoke. But Farrell manages just this here: his imaginative insight and technical virtuosity combine to produce a novel of quite outstanding quality' The Times'The magnificient passages of action in The Siege of Krishnapur, its gallery of characters, its unashamedly detailed and fascinating dissertations on cholera, gunnery, phrenology, the prodigal inventiveness of its no doubt also well-documented scenes should satisfy the most exacting and voracious reader. For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece' John Spurling, New Statesman
- Other categories, genre or collection: Contemporary Fiction
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 9.97 USD
- Dimensions: 128x198x28mm
- Weight: 273g
- Printed by: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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