Felix Holt, The Radical
Author : George Eliot
Performed By : Nadia May
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 18 hours
Categories : Classic Literature
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"George Eliot's work places great importance on setting...much background is provided to make the nineteenth-century love triangle come alive. Narrator Nadia May fills the listener in with brisk, breathless cadences, breezing through the lengthy descriptions like a lovable neighborhood gossip. Her crisp accent, pauses between sentences, and mastery of tone help the listener understand the predicament of Esther Lyon....As she reads the text, May seems to be enjoying it herself, which enables the listener to do the same."--AudioFile
Relinquishing thoughts of a materially rewarding life, the respectably educated Felix Holt returns to his native village in North Loamshire and becomes an artisan. He is a forceful young man of honor, integrity, and idealism, burning to participate in political life so that he may improve the lot of his fellow artisans.
Contrasted with Felix Holt is the intelligent, economically secure Harold Transome, just returned from the East to assume responsibility for Transome Court, his inherited manor home, and to take a seat in Parliament.
Both men vie for the hand of Esther, a young woman of charm and virtue, who must choose between a life of idealism and a life of refinement.
The narrative is enhanced by plot twists involving illegitimacy and lines of inheritances, as well as by Eliot's vivid character studies, including the corrupt political agent Johnson, Harold Transome's mother, with her fears of a secret being revealed, and the loyal servant Denner.
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FATHER BROWN Mysteries. Episode 5 THE THREE TOOLS OF DEATH
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
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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 5: THE THREE TOOLS OF DEATH. A man is murdered, a man confesses to the murder and is arrested, but Father Brown doesnt believe either claim.
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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