Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Victorian

“My wooing began in passion, was defined by violence and circumscribed by land; all these elements molded my soul.” So writes Charles O’Brien, the unforgettable hero of bestselling author Frank Delaney’s extraordinary novel—a sweeping epic of obsession, profound devotion, and...

Diana Biller’s The Brightest Star in Paris is a novel about first loves...and second chances. Amelie St. James, prima ballerina of the Paris Opera Ballet and sweetheart of Paris, is a fraud. Seven years ago, in the devastating aftermath of the Siege of Paris, she made a decision to protect...

Fünen in Dänemark, 1875: Nach den Flitterwochen in Paris kehren Baron Julius und Baroness Jessie auf Schloss Egeskov zurück – doch heimliche Affären und tief verwurzelte Traditionen drohen ihr Glück zu zerstören. Julius wagt es, die Regeln des Schlosses infrage zu stellen, während Jessie zwischen Leidenschaft, Mutterschaft und Pflichten ringt.

This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding...