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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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Dozen Red Roses, A: 12 Valentines Poems

Author : Various

Performed By : Various

Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd

Runtime : 22 minutes

Categories : Poetry

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Twelve specially selected favourite love poems, read by acclaimed actors Bill Wallis and Jenny Agutter.

This literary bouquet of blooms includes Andrew Marvell’s classic To His Coy Mistress, a beautiful extract from The Song of Solomon, Christina Rossetti’s joyful A Birthday, and Christopher Marlowe’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.

As well, there are Edward Fitzgerald’s meditations from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Edward Lear’s comic verse The Owl and The Pussycat, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s If Thou Must Love Me, John Donne’s The Sunne Rising and lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost.

Completing the dozen are Robert Burns’ My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose, Robert Herrick’s Delight in Disorder and Shakespeare’s Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day.

The poems are also available as individual downloads under the "Dozen Red Roses, A" series.