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Doctor Copernicus

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Doctor Copernicus

By: John Banville
Narrated by: John Lee
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The classic novel by "Irish master" (New Yorker) and Booker Prize–winner John Banville brings to life the dramatic and surprising world of sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus and the theory that would shatter the medieval view of the universe.

Sixteenth-century Europe is teeming with change and controversy: wars are being waged by princes and bishops and the repercussions of Luther are being felt through a convulsing Germany. In a remote corner of Poland, a modest canon is practicing medicine and studying the heavens, preparing a theory that will shatter the medieval view of the universe. In this astonishing work of historical imagination, John Banville offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence. For, in a world that is equal parts splendor and barbarism, an obscure cleric who seeks “the secret music of the universe” poses a most devastating threat.

"A tour de force… Exciting, beautifully written and astonishingly redolent of the late medieval world." —The Times Biographical Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Medieval Renaissance Middle Ages Biography
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Narrator was unbearable, otherwise it might have been a good story. A shame, because Banville is a very good author.

Unbearable narrator

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I've enjoyed many of John Lee's performances. But I found his style distracting for this text.
I especially enjoyed John Lee's narration of China Mieville's 'Perdido Street Station'. I will put off listening to 'Kepler', the next book in this series, but also narrated by John Lee. I'll try one of John Banville's other titles, one that uses a different narrator.

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