The Duchess of Powysland (Vol. 1-3)
An Aristocratic Marriage Drama of High Society, Inherited Privilege, and Victorian Social MoralityBy Grant Allen
Length15h 17m
About this audiobook
Published in the heyday of the Victorian three-volume novel, *The Duchess of Powysland* combines romantic intrigue, aristocratic inheritance, and the conventions of sensation fiction with Grant Allen's characteristic interest in social observation. Set against the imagined Welsh border world of Powysland, the narrative explores the pressures exerted by rank, property, marriage, and public reputation, while its shifting revelations and heightened emotional conflicts sustain the momentum of a serialized reading experience. Across its three volumes, the book belongs to the expansive literary culture that linked domestic fiction to political and regional questions, offering both melodramatic entertainment and a critical view of the institutions governing respectable life. Grant Allen (1848–1899) was a Canadian-born writer, educator, and scientific popularizer who made his career in Britain. His engagement with evolutionary thought, secular criticism, and contemporary social debates informed a remarkably versatile body of work, including scientific essays, novels, and stories. Although best known today for later detective and speculative fiction, Allen also understood the commercial and imaginative possibilities of the Victorian romance. This novel reveals his ability to adapt popular forms while bringing to them an analytical awareness of class, gender, and social power. Readers interested in Victorian sensation fiction, aristocratic romance, Welsh literary landscapes, and the development of Grant Allen's career will find this complete three-volume edition especially rewarding. It offers the pleasures of suspense and emotional drama alongside a valuable record of nineteenth-century anxieties about inheritance, identity, and authority. The novel is recommended both as an engaging period narrative and as a document of the literary marketplace in which popular fiction negotiated serious social concerns.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Romance
Length15 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Wolverden Tower (Christmas Mystery Series)
2Volume 1
3Chapter I. His First Brief.
4Chapter II. The Head of the Profession.
5Chapter III. Tête-À-Tête.
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6Chapter IV. Cross-Purposes.
7Chapter V. Among the Best People.
8Chapter VI. The Way of the World.
9Chapter VII. Sharp Practice.
10Chapter VIII. Dramatic Intelligence.
11Chapter IX. In Ducal Circles.
12Chapter X. A Thunderbolt Falls.
13Chapter XI. Two Sides to a Question.
14Chapter XII. The Duke Plunges.
15Chapter XIII. Disillusioned.
16Chapter XIV. Mr. Maclaine Interviewed.
17Volume 2
18Chapter XV. Flitting.
19Chapter XVI. Sabine Falls.
20Chapter XVII. Council of War.
21Chapter XVIII. Disinherited.
22Chapter XIX. A Relapse.
23Chapter XX. A Duchess on the Horizon.
24Chapter XXI. Oh, What a Surprise!
25Chapter XXII. Why Did She Do It?
26Chapter XXIII. Douglas Wonders.
27Chapter XXIV. A Sudden Attack.
28Chapter XXV. Heroic Remedies.
29Chapter XXVI. Success—Or Failure?
30Chapter XXVII. A Slight Misunderstanding.
31Chapter XXVIII. Doubts and Fears.
32Chapter XXIX. Private and Confidential.
33Chapter XXX. Unstable Equilibrium.
34Chapter XXXI. Friction.
35Chapter XXXII. A Crisis.
36Volume 3
37Chapter XXXIII. Doubted!
38Chapter XXXIV. Miss Woodward's Secret.
39Chapter XXXV. The Duke Deliberates.
40Chapter XXXVI. Heads or Tails.
41Chapter XXXVII. Tails Win.
42Chapter XXXVIII. A Night of Terrors.
43Chapter XXXIX. What the World Said.
44Chapter XL. In Deadly Peril.
45Chapter XLI. Counsel's Opinion.
46Chapter XLII. Mr. Roper at Home.
47Chapter XLIII. Modus Operandi.
48Chapter XLIV. Before Twelve Good Men and True.
49Chapter XLV. Counsel for the Defence.
50Chapter XLVI. Cumulative Evidence.
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