

Past Imperfect
Author: Julian Fellowes
Narrator: Richard Morant
Unabridged: 16 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/10/2009
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Julian Fellowes
Narrator: Richard Morant
Unabridged: 16 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 09/10/2009
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Julian Fellowes is the Emmy Award–winning writer and creator of Downton Abbey and the winner of the 2001 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Gosford Park. He also wrote the screenplays for Vanity Fair and The Young Victoria. He is the bestselling author of Snobs and Past Imperfect, and his other works include The Curious Adventure of the Abandoned Toys and the book for the Disney stage musical of Mary Poppins. As an actor, his roles include Lord Kilwillie in the BBC Television series Monarch of Glen and the Second Duke of Richmond in Aristocrats, as well as appearances in the films Shadowlands, Damage, and Tomorrow Never Dies. He lives in London and Dorset, England.
Richard Morant (1945–2011) appeared in numerous British stage and television productions, including Rumpole of the Bailey, Lord Peter Whimsey, and Tom Brown’s School Days.
"Me aguarde lo que me aguarde, ya sea mucho o poco, eso queda por ver, pero he conocido de lo que hablan los poetas y esa es la razón de que me sienta agradecido". Es curioso la manera en que un libro o un escritor entra en nuestras vidas. En este caso, y prefiero pensar que el azar en sí no existe s......more
Fellowes is amusing because he is keenly observant, advantageously placed, literate, and loquacious. He puts words together in a way that makes us smirk and smile and acknowledge to be largely truthful, if not entirely. He writes of a class of society most of us will never know personally: the rich,......more
1 1/2 tristes y confusas estrellas. Julian Fellowes es el autor del guión de Gosford Park (una película increíble) y el creador de Downtown Abbey (una serie que, aunque al final dejé de verla, me resultaba fascinante). Es evidente que el señor sabe escribir y que lo hace muy bien, increíblemente bie......more
This is an extraordinarily evocative book and I truly relished reading it. It's so descriptive that you almost feel as if you're part of the events taking place, and the many switches between the narrator's youth in the late 1960s and the present day are deftly handled. The characters are frequently......more
“It’s like a visit to an English country estate: breezy, beautiful, and charming.” New York Times Book Review
“It’s not only the rich who are different, it’s the British upper classes too. This complicated truth, all the more palatable if delivered amusingly, has been successfully tackled by such insiders as P. G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, and Nancy Mitford, and is now resurrected by Julian Fellowes.” Miami Herald
“This is a book for a hot winter beach, an escape from life as we know it.” Independent (London)
“Deservedly compared to Tom Wolfe, Fellowes, with his ability to document the aristocracy with a sociologist’s eye, fashions intriguing narratives.” Publishers Weekly