Llewelyn Powys’s penetrating portrait of James Thomson (B.V.) tracks the poet’s stark journey from army schoolmaster to the uncompromising author of The City of Dreadful Night.
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About this audiobook
Llewelyn Powys’s penetrating portrait of James Thomson (B.V.) tracks the poet’s stark journey from army schoolmaster to the uncompromising author of The City of Dreadful Night. With vivid, unsentimental clarity, Powys illuminates Thomson’s friendships, London solitude, bouts of insomnia and drink, and the iron logic of his pessimism. The result is a bracing, compassionate study of a brilliant mind wrestling with despair—and the hard-won art it produced.
Narrated by Mark Roddy with a steady, empathetic touch, this audiobook brings Powys’s luminous prose and Thomson’s haunted world into sharp relief, perfect for listeners of literary biography, poetry lovers, and fans of nineteenth-century letters.
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Details
Length
21 min
Narration
Solo narrator
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Released
October 2026
Publisher
Anthony Pica Productions LLC
Language
English
ISBN
9798182669641
Questions
Who narrates the James Thomson audiobook?
This edition of James Thomson by Llewelyn Powys is narrated by Mark Roddy.
How long is the James Thomson audiobook?
It runs 21 min, unabridged, so you hear the complete text.
Is this audiobook narrated by a real person?
Yes. Every Academy Voices audiobook is Certified Human Voice: performed start to finish by a real narrator.
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