Classic novel reader: James

Classic novel reader, refined, articulate, and old-world

Prompt: A refined, RP-inflected male voice for the classics. His polished baritone is articulate and warm, savoring elegant prose with old-world clarity, never rushing a well-turned line. There's a leather-and-firelight nobility in his tone. The sound of a narrator who reads Austen or Dickens as though the ink were barely dry.

Script: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And Mr. Trelawney, being a gentleman of moderate fortune and immoderate opinions, was firmly convinced of both at once, often within the space of a single breakfast. His sister had long since ceased to argue the point...