Gin Palace, The
Author : Emile Zola
Performed By : Frederick Davidson
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 7 hours
Categories : Classic Literature
Our Price : $16.95
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"Unsurpassable...heroically big...the intensity of her creator's vision...of the dense sordid life...is one of the great things the modern novel has been able to do."--Henry James
"The Gin Palace delighted me...full of color, movement, and life."--Anatole France
"A born writer, marvelously gifted."--Guy de Maupassant
The Gin Palace is the seventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, about two branches of a French family traced through several generations. Introducing one of the most sympathetic heroines in nineteenth-century literature, it is also the work that made his reputation.
Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Monsieur Coupeau, it seems as though she is on the path to a decent, respectable life at last. But with her husband's drinking and the unexpected appearance of a figure from her past, Gervaise's plans begin to unravel tragically.
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FATHER BROWN Mysteries. Episode 3 The Queer Feet
Author : G.K. Chesterton. Dramatized by M J Elliott
Performed By : The Colonial Radio Theatre
Publisher : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air
Runtime : 30 minutes
Categories : Dramatizations
Detective
Drama
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From London to Cornwall, then to Italy and France, a short, shabby priest takes on bandits, traitors and killers. Why is he so successful? The reason is that after years spent in the priesthood, Father Brown knows human nature and is not afraid of its dark side. Thus he understands criminal motivation and how to deal with it.
Episode 3 THE QUEER FEET: If you meet a member of that select club, 'The Twelve True Fishermen,' entering the Vernon Hotel for the annual club dinner, you will observe, as he takes off his overcoat, that his evening coat is green and not black. If (supposing that you have the star-defying audacity to address such a being) you ask him why, he will probably answer that he does it to avoid being mistaken for a waiter. You will then retire crushed. But you will leave behind you a mystery as yet unsolved and a tale worth telling.
The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air presents
THE FATHER BROWN MYSTERIES
Starring J.T. TURNER as Father Brown. HUGH METZLER as Inspector Craven.
From the FATHER BROWN short stories by G K Chesterton
Dramatized by M J Elliott
Executive Producer MARK VANDER BERG. Directed by JERRY ROBBINS. Produced by MATTHEW McLAREN
Music by KEVIN McLEOD
(c) 2007 The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air
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