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Framley Parsonage

Author : Anthony Trollope

Performed By : Simon Vance

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 19 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $36.95

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"I wish Mr. Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever.

I don't see any reason why it should ever come to an end, and everyone I know is always

dreading the last number."--Author Elizabeth Gaskell to George Smith, publisher of the

Cornhill, March 1, 1860

Mark Robarts, a young vicar, is newly arrived in the village of Framley. With ambitions to

further his career, he seeks connections in the county's high society. He is soon preyed

upon by a local member of parliament to guarantee a substantial loan, which Mark in a

moment of weakness agrees to, even though he knows the man is a notorious debtor,

and which brings him to the brink of ruin.



Meanwhile, Mark's sister, Lucy, is deeply in love with Lord Lufton, the son of the lofty Lady

Lufton. Lord Lufton has proposed, but Lady Lufton is against the marriage, preferring that

her son choose the coldly beautiful Griselda Grantly.



The novel will conclude with four happy marriages, including one involving Doctor Thorne,

the hero of the preceding book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series.

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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.