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Howards End

Author : E. M. Forster

Performed By : Nadia May

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 11 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $23.95

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"Howards End is undoubtedly Forster's masterpiece; it develops to their full the themes

and attitudes of [his] early books and throws back upon them a new and enhancing light."--Lionel Trilling

A vibrant portrait of Edwardian England, Howards End examines personal relationships and conflicting

values. The Schlegel sisters, Margaret and Helen, and their brother Tibby, place their values in civilized living,

music, literature, and conversation with their friends. The Wilcoxes, Henry and his children Charles, Paul, and

Evie, are concerned with the business side of life and distrust emotions and imagination.



Howards End, a charming country house in Hertfordshire which belonged to Henry Wilcox's first wife, becomes the

object of an inheritance dispute between the Wilcox family and Schlegel sisters. Through romantic entanglements,

disappearing wills, and sudden tragedy, the conflict over the house emerges as a symbolic struggle for England's

very future.

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Elusive Pimpernel, The

Author : Baroness Orczy

Performed By : Johanna Ward

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 9 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $19.95

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"Johanna Ward brings suspense and wit to this story of intrigue set in the days following the
French Revolution....She makes good use of her native British and superb French accents to help create
vivid and complex personalities. Ward's great sense of mood and timing carry listeners through to the very
end...."--AudioFile

In this sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney's arch-enemy travels to England in pursuit
of the impudent enemy of the French Republic. Monsieur Chauvelin devises a dastardly plot to annihilate, once
and for all, both Sir Percy and his beautiful wife Marguerite. Lured to France, where the entire town of Boulogne
is held hostage on their behalf, they seem to be hopelessly trapped. Will the Scarlet Pimpernel prevail?