The Hand of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta
English | February 14, 2023 | ASIN: B0BVT2XHXV | M4B@125 kbps | 16h 0m | 874.57 MB
Author: Thomas Hardy
Narrator: Fenella Woolgar
Opportunistic, shrewd and beautiful, Ethelberta resolves to disguise her humble beginnings and elevate her position in society. Crafting her career as a society poet and staging her family as her servants, she proves admirably adept at sustaining her own web of deceit as she reinvents herself and navigates the attentions of four different suitors. The wealthiest is not the one she loves… what will she do? This is a light-hearted urban tale, offering a different side of Thomas Hardy. The master of pastoral realist novels was presenting a “somewhat frivolous narrative”, which nevertheless displayed his acute consciousness of class divisions and continues to delight those who discover it within his better-known works.
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