A man of conscience, duty and tradition, an immature, impressionable girl of supreme virtue and perhaps the greatest cad in English Literature are the chief protagonists of this tale.

Tragedy falls upon the House of Humblethwaite. Sir Harry Hotspur's son dies at 21 years of age. There is no other male heir save a second cousin, a scapegrace seemingly beyond redemption. Can Sir Harry's daughter, Emily, effect a miracle and hold property and title together by an affectionate and honourable marriage to such a fellow, or is the demise of the ancient Hotspur family and all it stands for inevitable?

"A novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love. It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it or expects to feel it." The Author.

Collection	Narrator	Length
Victorian	Peter Joyce	8 hrs

Media	Compact Disc	Audio Tape
Media Qty	8	6
Audio Format	CD-DA	Analogue
Book Code	VI-100CD	VI-100TA
ISBN	978 1 86015 022 7	978 1 86015 472 0
Price	£22.99	£19.99

Anthony Trollope (1815 –1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire, but he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.

His mother would later become a successful writer. His father worked as a barrister. Trollope, though a clever and well-educated man and a Fellow of New College Oxford, failed at the bar due to his bad temper. Not only that, but his ventures into farming proved unprofitable and he lost an expected inheritance when an elderly uncle married and had children. Nonetheless, he came from a genteel background, with connections to the landed gentry, and so wished to educate his sons as gentlemen and for them to attend Oxford or Cambridge. The conflict between his family's social background and its poverty would cause misery to Anthony Trollope as a boy....

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