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Margaret Oliphant is one of the great Victorian novelists and "Hester" is a masterpiece of psychological realism published in 1883.
In exploring the difficulty of understanding human nature, it is also a compulsive story of financial and sexual risk-taking that inevitably results in a searing climax.
"Hester" tells the story of the ageing but powerful Catherine Vernon, and her conflict with the young and determined Hester, whose growing attachment to Edward, Catherine's favourite, spells disaster for all concerned.
Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head of the family bank. She thinks she sees through everyone and rules over a family of dependants with knowing cynicism. But there are two people in Redborough who resist her. One is Hester, a young relation with a personality as strong as Catherine's, and as determined to find a role for herself. The other is Edward, who Catherine treats like a son. Conflict between the young and the old is inevitable, and in its depiction of the complex relationships that develop between the three principal characters.
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Rating★★★★ 4.0 (1.1K)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance, Mystery and Thriller
Length21 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 4, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1VOLUME 1
25Chapter 7. The First Of Them
2Chapter 1. Vernon's
26Chapter 8. A New Competitor
3Chapter 2. Miss Catherine
27Chapter 9. A Double Mind
4Chapter 3. The Vernonry
28Chapter 10. Straightforward
5Chapter 4. A First Meeting
29Chapter 11. A Centre Of Life
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6Chapter 5. Next Morning
30Chapter 12. Was It Love?
7Chapter 6. Neighbours And Relations
31Chapter 13. Christmas
8Chapter 7. Settling Down
32Chapter 14. The Party At The Grange
9Chapter 8. Nineteen
33VOLUME 3
10Chapter 9. Recollections
34Chapter 1. Business And Love
11Chapter 10. A Lover
35Chapter 2. A Speculator
12Chapter 11. Mother And Daughter
36Chapter 3. A Late Visitor
13Chapter 12. An Indignant Spectator
37Chapter 4. Doubts And Fears
14Chapter 13. Catherine's Opinion
38Chapter 5. A Discovery
15Chapter 14. Harry's View
39Chapter 6. In The Labyrinth
16Chapter 15. What Edward Thought
40Chapter 7. Alarms
17Chapter 16. Walks And Talks
41Chapter 8. The Crisis
18VOLUME 2
42Chapter 9. Under The Holly
19Chapter 1. The Young And The Old
43Chapter 10. The Hour Of Need
20Chapter 2. A Family Party
44Chapter 11. A Night's Vigil
21Chapter 3. Confidences
45Chapter 12. Afterwards
22Chapter 4. Roland
46Chapter 13. An Interruption
23Chapter 5. Warning
47Chapter 14. The Settlement
24Chapter 6. Dancing Teas
48Chapter 15. The End
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