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Daniel Deronda

Author : George Eliot

Performed By : Nadia May

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 30 hours

Categories : Classic Literature

Our Price : $49.95

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"Daniel Deronda is a startling and unexpected novel it is a cosmic myth, a world

history, and a morality play."--A. S. Byatt

"Nadia May meets the strenuous demands of Eliot's narration with easy assurance."--Library Journal

One of the masterpieces of English fiction, Daniel Deronda tells the intertwined stories of two different

characters as they each come to discover of the truth of their natures. Gwendolen Harleth is the high-spirited

beauty of an impoverished upper-class family. In order to restore their fortunes, she unwittingly traps herself

in an oppressive marriage. Humbled, she turns for solace and guidance to the high-minded Daniel Deronda, an

adopted son of an aristocratic Englishman who is searching for his path in life. But when Deronda rescues a poor

Jewish girl from drowning, he discovers a world of Jewish experience previously unknown to himor to the

Victorian novel. Dismayed by the anti-Semitism around him, the tragedy of the lovely Gwendolen begins

to fade for Deronda. When he finally uncovers the long-hidden secret of his own parentage, he must confront his

true identity and destiny.

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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.