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Released in our new Young Adult Classics format, Henry James' classic ghost story is a masterpiece of the supernatural. The tale is taken from the diary of a governess, who describes her mounting sense of paranoia at the relationship between her two wards and the ghostly figures that haunt the estate. Menacing, ambiguous and haunted by a...

The Bostonians written by Henry James performed by Bill Hootkins on Audio CD (Abridged)

The Bostonians written by Henry James performed by Bill Hootkins on Audio CD (Abridged)
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ISBN:  9780748903674
Genre - Main:  Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Classic English
Duration:  145 mins
Length:  Abridged
Author:  Henry James
Performer 1:  Bill Hootkins

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From Boston's social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of "the sisterhood of women". She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancellor, devotee of radical causes, and marked out for tragedy; and Basil Ransom, veteran of the Civil War, with rigid views concerning society and women's place therein.

Is the lovely, lighthearted Verena made for public movements or private passions? A struggle to possess her, body and soul, develops between Olive and Basil.

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