Foxglove Manor (Vol. 1-3) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Complete EditionBy Robert Williams Buchanan
Length11h 20m
About this audiobook
Foxglove Manor (Vol. 1-3) is a substantial Victorian triple-decker that turns the country house into a theatre of secrecy, inheritance, desire, and moral trial. Buchanan writes in a mode poised between domestic realism and sensation fiction: his prose is expansive, rhetorically alert, and attentive to atmosphere, while the manor itself becomes a symbolic enclosure where social respectability and private disorder uneasily coexist. In the literary context of the late nineteenth-century novel, it belongs to the tradition that tests romance against property, family history, and conscience. Robert Williams Buchanan, poet, novelist, dramatist, and controversial critic, brought to fiction the intensity of a writer formed by journalism, metropolitan literary quarrels, and a lifelong concern with social and spiritual questions. Born in 1841 and associated with both Scottish and English literary cultures, Buchanan often wrote from the position of an observant outsider, skeptical of cant and fascinated by moral ambiguity. This novel is recommended to readers interested in Victorian fiction beyond the standard canon: capacious, atmospheric, and intellectually earnest, it rewards those who enjoy layered plotting, ethical conflict, and the distinctive architecture of the nineteenth-century three-volume novel.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, General Fiction
Length11 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 29, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Volume 1
3PREFATORY NOTE.
4CHAPTER I. ST. CUTHBERT’S.
5CHAPTER II. AT THE VICARAGE.
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6CHAPTER III. “THERE IS A CHANGE!”
7CHAPTER IV. GEORGE HALDANE.
8CHAPTER V. THE LAMB AND THE SHEPHERD.
9CHAPTER VI. THE UNKNOWN GOD.
10CHAPTER VII. CELESTIAL AFFINITIES.
11CHAPTER VIII. A SICK-CALL.
12CHAPTER IX. A SUMMER SHOWER.
13CHAPTER X. THE KISS.
14CHAPTER XI. EDITH.
15CHAPTER XII. CONSCIENCE.
16CHAPTER XIII. IN THE LABORATORY.
17Volume 2
18CHAPTER XIV. BAPTISTO STAYS AT HOME.
19CHAPTER XV. CONJURATION.
20CHAPTER XVI. AT THE OPERA.
21CHAPTER XVII. WALTER HETHERINGTON.
22CHAPTER XVIII. CHURCH BELLS—AND A DISCORD.
23CHAPTER XIX. HE IS BUT A LANDSCAPE PAINTER
24CHAPTER XX. IN THE GLOAMING.
25CHAPTER XXI. IN THE VICARAGE PARLOUR.
26CHAPTER XXII. AT THE VICARAGE.
27CHAPTER XXIII. DR. DUPRÉ’S ELIXIR.
28CHAPTER XXIV. THE EXPERIMENT.
29CHAPTER XXV. “BEWARE, MY LORD, OF JEALOUSY!”
30CHAPTER XXVI. FIRST LEAVES FROM A PHILOSOPHER NOTE-BOOK.
31CHAPTER XXVII. THE NOTE-BOOK CONTINUED NYMPH AND SATYR.
32Volume 3
33CHAPTER XXVIII. A MONKISH TALE (FROM THE NOTE-BOOK).
34CHAPTER XXIX. HUSH-MONEY.
35CHAPTER XXX. “AND LO! WITHIN HER, SOMETHING LEAPT!”
36CHAPTER XXXI. A LAST APPEAL.
37CHAPTER XXXII. “FLIEH’! AUF’! HINAUS! IN’S WEITE LAND!”
38CHAPTER XXXIII. THE NOTE-BOOK AGAIN.
39CHAPTER XXXIV. BAITING A MOUSE-TRAP (FROM THE NOTEBOOK).
40CHAPTER XXXV. THE ASSIGNATION.
41CHAPTER XXXVI. A FUNERAL PEAL.
42CHAPTER XXXVII. THE DEATH-BED.
43CHAPTER XXXVIII. TORTURE AND CONFESSION.
44CHAPTER XXXIX. GETHSEMANE.
45CHAPTER XL. THREE LETTERS.
46Memorable Quotes
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