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A kindly warden is accused of misusing church funds. This amusing book examines the making and breaking of reputations.

Der Hörer wird von Karen Schulz-Vorbachs Stimme zurück in das 19. Jahrhundert versetzt und folgt der Geschichte von Margret Mackenzie. Diese erbt nach dem Tod ihres Vaters und ihrer beiden älteren Brüder ein beachtliches Vermögen. Nachdem sie Jahrzehnte lang von der Welt abgekapselt und unselbständig war, hat sie nun plötzlich eine neu gewonnene Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit. Doch gleichzeitig ist sie auch einsam und weltfremd. Mit beispiellosem Mut schafft es Margret trotz allem in diese turbulente Welt einzutreten, die ihr völlig fremd ist, und sie macht sich auf die Suche nach einem Platz in dem sie leben und vielleicht sogar lieben kann.

Zu Zeiten seiner Veröffentlichung war der Roman "Auge um Auge" sehr kontrovers. Erzählt wird die Geschichte eines jungen Mannes von Adel, der ein bürgerliches Mädchen verführt. Dabei bleibt es jedoch nicht, denn es dauert nicht lange, da wird das Mädchen schwanger. Sobald der junge Mann jedoch von der Situation erfährt, verlässt er das junge Mädchen, welches nun auf sich selbst gestellt ist. Jedoch birgt die Geschichte einige Überraschungen, denn die Geschichte findet nicht das für die Zeit des 19. Jahrhunderts übliche Ende. Eckart Ischebeck erweckt die Charaktere zum Leben und zieht die Hörer in seinen Bann.

'Relics of General Chassé' is a humorous tale of a corpulent and somewhat dandified clergyman who, while visiting the castle at Antwerp, inadvertently becomes separated from his breeches. What follows shakes him to the core. The breeches fall into the hands of a group of female English tourists who decide to take some sample of the cloth as a souvenir.

'Malachi’s Cove' tells the story of Mally Trenglos and Barry Gunliffe, who both earn their living by gathering seaweed. They are sworn enemies unit la near fatal accident seals their fate forever. Father Giles of Ballymoy is a hospitable Irish priest whose strange ways are at first misinterpreted by an English visitor.

Orley Farm, described as a “[B]rilliantly choreographed legal thriller” ( Mail on Sunday), centres on the pathos of the main character, Lady Mason. Youthful marriage choices, middle-aged marital crisis, love and loss revolve around the legal action and the complex portrayal of Lady Mason, who is both sympathetic and wily.

Anthony Trollope is known primarily for his epic novels like Barchester Towers. However, he also wrote a number of smaller "gems". This is one of the best. Alice Dugdale is a plain but intelligent girl who sees the love of her life pushed by society to marry the beautiful, but somewhat vacuous, rich girl in town. Alice's reaction to this situation makes a wonderful and insightful story.

This little gem of a novella manages to include a number of the same themes found in the longer novels in a much more compact form. Young Bessie falls in love with a man "above her station" and, although the love is returned, the social implications lead to many trials and tribulations before true love conquers all.

Fifty-year-old William Whittlestaff becomes guardian to Mary Lawrie, the orphaned and penniless daughter of an old friend, and gradually finds himself falling in love with her. But Mary has already given her heart to the young John Gordon, who has gone to seek his fortune in the Kimberley diamond fields. Gordon's sudden return after a three years' absence, on the very day of Whittlestaff's proposal, precipitates the crisis at the centre of the story.

Plain Alice suffers in silence while the much sought after Major cavorts with the beautiful Gerorgiana Wanless.

Miss Mackenzie by Trollope was the runner-up in Radio 4's 'Neglected Classics' vote. Margaret Mackenzie is a single woman in her mid-thirties who receives a large inheritance when her brother dies. She must then deal with what comes with the fortune, including several suitors, who may, or, may not, simply be after her money.

Dr. Wortle's School... is Trollope's most merciless attack on the false moralising and hypocrisy of the Victorian age. When Dr. Wortle, in good faith, hires a couple as teacher and matron at his school, scandal about their marriage is subsequently brought to light. Will the doctor submit to the social pressures brought to bear on him by the gossip, the local newspaper and the bishop or hold true to his humanism, perhaps losing his respect, school and livelihood as a result?

Penguin Classics presents Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers, adapted for listening and now available as a digital audiobook as part of the Penguin English Library series. The text is read by the actor David Timson. Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife, and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope.

"He was too imperious, too masterful, too much inclined to think that all things should be made to go as he would have them." Thus Trollope describes his hero Harry Heathcote, a settler and sheep farmer in the untamed bush of Australia in 1871. However, Harry has made enemies. In seeking always to act in the honourable fashion he cannot bend and embrace the weaknesses of others.

Der Hörer folgt in diesem interessanten Hörbuch dem Leben der jungen Cecilia Holt. Als Mädchen wuchs sie in behaglichen Umständen auf, aufgezogen von ihrer Mutter, und hatte alles was das Herz begehrt - jedenfalls fast. Ihr Verlobter Sir Francis Geraldine behandelt sie nur mit Gleichgültigkeit, weswegen Cecilia ihre Verlobung mit ihm beendet. Kurz darauf zieht sie ins Ausland, wo sie auf George Western trifft und die beiden kommen sich näher. Das Problem ist jedoch: Cecilia erzählt ihm nichts von ihrer Verlobung.

An essential for life. Without it life is impossible. Was it always that way? In this volume of stories, water becomes the landscape and narrative, a character more deadly and perhaps more aware of its power than us mere mortals. We are beguiled by its sight, whether softly breaking waves on a sandy beach or a thunderous storm engulfing the cliff face. But also in other forms; as lakes and lagoons. Water is everywhere, and where there is water is the shadow of menace.

A sweeping radio saga of political intrigue, love affairs, financial wrangles and murder, based on the books by Anthony Trollope, creator of The Barchester Chronicles. This brand new full-cast BBC Radio dramatisation follows several generations of the Palliser dynasty as they navigate the twists and turns of political and high society in Victorian England.

The intrigues of peaceful Barchester are of tremendous importance to its inhabitants, and Anthony Trollope enjoys observing how differently they impinge on the separate worlds of men and women. Men have to make a place for themselves in society; for them ambition is necessary and justified. Women, on the other hand, have to make marriage their career, and it is up to them to make as good a match as possible. For Trollope, however, genuine love is of the utmost importance to everyone and the only real basis for marriage.

The discovery of an irregularity in the marriage of a newly hired assistant headmaster and matron at Dr. Wortle's school tests the character of all involved and takes this story from the British countryside across the pond to the Wild West. Caution, this story includes some racial epithets that some of today's listeners may find offensive. Also included with this book is Trollope's charming short story, "Malachi's Cove".

Set in Nuremberg, this psychological novel explores the crushing of a young girl's spirit by her aunt's Calvinist fanaticism and insistence on her marrying an old man against her will.