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Diana of the Crossways

George Meredith (1828 - 1909)

Inspired by the real life story of Caroline Norton, a friend of the author's, this book tells about a lively woman who is trapped in a miserable marriage. Yet Diana is not one to give up in her quest for love, happiness and fulfillment. - Summary by Stav Nisser

Genre(s): Family Life, Romance

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Chapter 1: Of Diaries and Diarists Touching the Heroine	KHand	00:37:12
Play 02	Chapter 2: An Irish Ball	Pamela Nagami	00:26:05
Play 03	Chapter 3: The Interior of Mr. Redworth, and the Exterior of Mr. Sullivan Smith	KHand	00:18:16
Play 04	Chapter 4: Containing Hints of Diana's Experiences and of what They Led to	Lisa Reichert	00:31:16
Play 05	Chapter 5: Concerning the Scrupulous Gentleman who Came Too Late	Sheila	00:22:36
Play 06	Chapter 6: The Couple	Lisa Reichert	00:20:42
Play 07	Chapter 7: The Crisis	VfkaBT	00:20:55
Play 08	Chapter 8: In which is Exhibited How a Practical Man and a Divining Woman Learn to Respect One Another	VfkaBT	00:33:54
Play 09	Chapter 9: Shows How a Position of Delicacy for a Lady and Gentleman was Met in Simple Fashion Without Hurt to Either	VfkaBT	00:20:51
Play 10	Chapter 10: The Conflict of the Night	Mark Penfold	00:11:00
Play 11	Chapter 11: Recounts the Journey in a Chariot, with a Certain Amount of Dialogue, and a Small Incident on the Road	Lucy Kempton	00:16:35
Play 12	Chapter 12: Between Emma and Diana	Lucy Kempton	00:15:03
Play 13	Chapter 13: Touching the First Days of Her Probation	Lynne T	00:22:10
Play 14	Chapter 14: Giving Glimpses of Diana Under Her Cloud Before the World and of Her Further Apprenticeship	Lisa Reichert	00:33:39
Play 15	Chapter 15: Introduces the Hon. Percy Dacier	Lisa Reichert	00:28:26
Play 16	Chapter 16: Treats of a Midnight Bell, and of a Scene of Early Morning	Lisa Reichert	00:35:02
Play 17	Chapter 17: 'The Princess Egeria'	Jim Locke	00:25:37
Play 18	Chapter 18: The Authoress	Jim Locke	00:21:00
Play 19	Chapter 19: A Drive in Sunlight and a Drive in Moonlight	Jim Locke	00:26:06
Play 20	Chapter 20: Diana a Night-Watch in the Chamber of Death	Jim Locke	00:19:36
Play 21	Chapter 21: 'The Young Minister of State'	KHand	00:25:17
Play 22	Chapter 22: Between Diana and Dacier: The Wind East Over Bleak Land	KHand	00:18:07
Play 23	Chapter 23: Records a Visit to Diana from One of the World’s Good Women	KHand	00:20:25
Play 24	Chapter 24: Indicates a Soul Prepared for Desperation	Michele Eaton	00:15:25
Play 25	Chapter 25: Once More the Crossways and a Change of Turnings	KHand	00:19:42
Play 26	Chapter 26: In which a Disappointed Lover Receives a Multitude of Lessons	KHand	00:27:35
Play 27	Chapter 27: Contains Matter for Subsequent Explosion	Deborah Balm	00:36:27
Play 28	Chapter 28: Dialogue Round the Subject of a Portrait, with Some Indications of the Task for Diana	Deborah Balm	00:30:59
Play 29	Chapter 29: Shows the Approaches of the Political and the Domestic Crisis in Company	Deborah Balm	00:34:10
Play 30	Chapter 30: In which There is a Taste of a Little Dinner and an Aftertaste	Deborah Balm	00:20:29
Play 31	Chapter 31: A Chapter Containing Great Political News and Therewith an Intrusion of the Love-God	Kathleen Moore	00:11:29
Play 32	Chapter 32: Wherein We Behold a Giddy Turn at the Spectral Crossways	Kathleen Moore	00:14:03
Play 33	Chapter 33: Exhibits the Springing of a Mine in a Newspaper Article	Kathleen Moore	00:15:32
Play 34	Chapter 34: In which it is Darkly Seen How the Criminal's Judge May Be Love's Criminal	Michele Eaton	00:17:34
Play 35	Chapter 35: Reveals How the True Heroine of Romance Comes Finally to Her, Time of Triumph	Jim Locke	00:21:53
Play 36	Chapter 36: Is Conclusive as to the Heartlessness of Women with Brains	Kalynda	00:21:02
Play 37	Chapter 37: An Exhibition of Some Champions of the Stricken Lady	Jim Locke	00:22:31
Play 38	Chapter 38: Convalescence of a Healthy Mind Distraught	Jim Locke	00:14:41
Play 39	Chapter 39: Of Nature with One of Her Cultivated Daughters and a Short Excursion in Anti-Climax	Jim Locke	00:30:07
Play 40	Chapter 40: In which We See Nature Making of a Woman a Maid Again, and a Thrice Whimsical	Jim Locke	00:25:56
Play 41	Chapter 41: Contains a Revelation of the Origin of the Tigress in Diana	Jim Locke	00:18:42
Play 42	Chapter 42: The Penultimate: Showing a Final Struggle for Liberty and Run into Harness	Jim Locke	00:24:42
Play 43	Chapter 43: Nuptial Chapter; and of How a Barely Willing Woman was Led to Bloom with the Nuptial Sentiment	Jim Locke	00:32:27

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