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Catalog date:
2015-07-08
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Phantom Fortune, A Novel

Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835 - 1915)

Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her husband, whom she married only for his fortune, committed a terrible crime in India. Forty years later, she is taking care of her two granddaughters, Mary and Lesbia. She prefers Lesbia, because of her beauty. Therefore, the relationship between the sisters is tolerable at best. Mary marries the man of her dreams while Lesbia enters London society under the wing of her grandmother's faithful friend. Would she take all the advantages offered to her and find a match which would make her grandmother happy? Would Mary finally be happy? And what has Lord Maulevrier done in India which makes his wife continue to bury herself in shame? - Summary by Stav Nisser.

Genre(s): Romance

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Penelope chocmuse
 00:18:38
Play 02 Ulysses chocmuse
 00:16:48
Play 03 On the Wrong Road Jothi Tharavant
 00:25:32
Play 04 The Last Stage Lynne T
 00:07:44
Play 05 Forty Years After Vipal Prem
 00:46:22
Play 06 Maulevrier's Humble Friend chocmuse
 00:16:46
Play 07 In the Summer Morning chocmuse
 00:14:25
Play 08 There is Always a Skeleton Lynne T
 00:22:18
Play 09 A Cry in the Darkness Vanessa Garcia
 00:27:56
Play 10 'O Bitterness of Things Too Sweet' Catharine Birdwell
 00:33:03
Play 11 'If I Were to Do as Iseult Did' Caroline Morales
 00:12:18
Play 12 'The Greater Cantle of the World is Lost' Lynne T
 00:14:40
Play 13 'Since Painted or Not Painted All Things Shall Fade' Lynne T
 00:36:13
Play 14 'Not Yet' Lynne T
 00:19:19
Play 15 'Of All Men Else I Have Avoided Thee' Mary Herndon Bell
 00:19:25
Play 16 'Her Face Resigned to Bliss or Bale' Mary Herndon Bell
 00:15:26
Play 17 'And the Spring Comes Slowly Up this Way' Mary Herndon Bell
 00:28:34
Play 18 'And Come Agen, Be it Night or Day' Mary Herndon Bell
 00:30:55
Play 19 The Old Man on the Fell Mary Herndon Bell
 00:16:40
Play 20 Lady Maulevrier's Letter-Bag Mary Herndon Bell
 00:17:39
Play 21 On the Dark Brow of Helvellyn Mary Herndon Bell
 00:33:26
Play 22 Wiser than Lesbia Mary Herndon Bell
 00:31:57
Play 23 'A Young Lamb's Heart Among the Full-Grown Flocks' Mary Herndon Bell
 00:27:39
Play 24 'Now Nothing Left to Love or Hate' Lynne T
 00:46:37
Play 25 Carte Blanche Mary Herndon Bell
 00:54:59
Play 26 'Proud Can I Never Be of What I Hate' Mary Herndon Bell
 00:30:31
Play 27 Lesbia Crosses Piccadilly Mary Herndon Bell
 00:28:27
Play 28 'Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in Wild Disorder Seen' Mary Herndon Bell
 00:31:46
Play 29 'Swift, Subtle Post, Carrier of Grisly Care' Mary Herndon Bell
 00:24:25
Play 30 'Roses Choked Among the Thorns and Thistles' Catharine Birdwell
 00:34:00
Play 31 'Kind is My Love To-day, To-morrow Kind' Lynne T
 00:24:16
Play 32 Ways and Means Jothi Tharavant
 00:19:29
Play 33 By Special Licence Mary Herndon Bell
 00:45:32
Play 34 'Our Love was New, and Then But in the Spring' Lynne T
 00:20:38
Play 35 'All Fancy Pride, and Fickle Maidenhood' Mary Herndon Bell
 00:23:38
Play 36 A Rastaquouère Mary Herndon Bell
 00:47:15
Play 37 Lord Hatfield Refuses a Fortune Mary Herndon Bell
 00:41:21
Play 38 On Board the 'Cayman' Mary Herndon Bell
 00:46:21
Play 39 In Storm and Darkness Mary Herndon Bell
 00:28:13
Play 40 A Note of Alarm Caroline Morales
 00:12:23
Play 41 Privileged Information Mary Herndon Bell
 00:15:50
Play 42 'Shall It Be?' Atang
 00:09:38
Play 43 'Alas, for Sorrow is All the End of This' Lynne T
 00:27:09
Play 44 'Oh, Sad Kissed Mouth, How Sorrowful it Is!' Lynne T
 00:24:24
Play 45 'That Fell Arrest Without All Bail' Lynne T
 00:15:00
Play 46 The Day of Reckoning Jothi Tharavant
 00:24:23