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The Bostonians
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LENGTH17 hrs and 53 mins
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RELEASE DATE01-10-11
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Program TypeAudiobook
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Publisher's Summary
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, a veteran of the Civil War who holds 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. The exploitation of Verena's unregenerate innocence reflects a society whose moral and cultural values are failing to survive the new dawn of liberalism and democracy.
When it was first published in 1886, The Bostonians was not welcomed by Henry James's fellow countrymen, who failed to appreciate its delicacy and wit. But over a century later, this book is widely regarded as James's finest American fiction and perhaps his comic masterpiece.
Public Domain ©2009 Henry James (P)2010 Tantor
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I really hated this book, and I've never written that in a review before. It was a chore to get through this one. I hung in to the end, because that is my nature, but I was celebrating when it was over. I've read so many Audible books and enjoyed the vast majority. This was among the worst 10%. There is almost no plot, it moves so slowly, and even the characters were shallow. Just not my cup of tea.....
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