The Shuttle (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Historical NovelBy Frances Hodgson Burnett
Length25h 2m
About this audiobook
Published in 1907, The Shuttle is Frances Hodgson Burnett's expansive transatlantic novel about American wealth, English aristocratic decline, and the human costs of marriage as social transaction. Centered on Rosalie Vanderpoel's disastrous union with Sir Nigel Anstruthers and her sister Bettina's restorative intervention, the book blends social realism, melodrama, and romantic comedy. Its title evokes the ocean liner as a "shuttle" weaving together—and exposing—the cultures of the United States and Britain in the Edwardian age. Burnett, Anglo-American by birth and experience, was unusually well placed to anatomize these exchanges. Born in Manchester and raised partly in Tennessee after family financial ruin, she knew both class insecurity and reinvention. Her own transatlantic career, literary success, and observation of American heiresses marrying into impoverished British nobility inform the novel's sharp interest in gendered power, property, and national character. Readers drawn to richly furnished social fiction, feminist undercurrents, and the cultural history of Anglo-American relations will find The Shuttle rewarding. Though less famous than Burnett's children's classics, it reveals her adult fiction at its most ambitious: intelligent, dramatic, and keenly alert to the forces shaping modern womanhood.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
- The Synopsis outlines the central plot, highlighting key developments without spoiling critical twists.
- A detailed Historical Context immerses you in the era's events and influences that shaped the writing.
- An Author Biography reveals milestones in the author's life, illuminating the personal insights behind the text.
- A thorough Analysis dissects symbols, motifs, and character arcs to unearth underlying meanings.
- Reflection questions prompt you to engage personally with the work's messages, connecting them to modern life.
- 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
GenreLiterary Classics, Romance
Length25 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 6, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Head of the House of Coombe & Robin (Annotated)
2Introduction
3Synopsis
4Historical Context
5Author Biography
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6Chapter I. The Weaving of the Shuttle
7Chapter II. A Lack of Perception
8Chapter III. Young Lady Anstruthers
9Chapter IV. A Mistake of the Postboy's
10Chapter V. On Both Sides of the Atlantic
11Chapter VI. An Unfair Endowment
12Chapter VII. On Board the “Meridiana”
13Chapter VIII. The Second-Class Passenger
14Chapter IX. Lady Jane Grey
15Chapter X. “Is Lady Anstruthers at Home?”
16Chapter XI. “I Thought You had all Forgotten.”
17Chapter XII. Ughtred
18Chapter XIII. One of the New York Dresses
19Chapter XIV. In the Gardens
20Chapter XV. The First Man
21Chapter XVI. The Particular Incident
22Chapter XVII. Townlinson & Sheppard
23Chapter XVIII. The Fifteenth Earl of Mount Dunstan
24Chapter XIX. Spring in Bond Street
25Chapter XX. Things Occur in Stornham Village
26Chapter XXI. Kedgers
27Chapter XXII. One of Mr. Vanderpoel's Letters
28Chapter XXIII. Introducing G. Selden
29Chapter XXIV. The Political Economy of Stornham
30Chapter XXV. “We Began to Marry Them, My Good Fellow!”
31Chapter XXVI. “What it must be to You—Just You!”
32Chapter XXVII. Life
33Chapter XXVIII. Setting Them Thinking
34Chapter XXIX. The Thread of G. Selden
35Chapter XXX. A Return
36Chapter XXXI. No, She Would Not
37Chapter XXXII. A Great Ball
38Chapter XXXIII. For Lady Jane
39Chapter XXXIV. Red Godwyn
40Chapter XXXV. The Tidal Wave
41Chapter XXXVI. By the Roadside Everywhere
42Chapter XXXVII. Closed Corridors
43Chapter XXXVIII. At Shandy's
44Chapter XXXIX. On the Marshes
45Chapter LX. “Don't Go on with This”
46Chapter XLI. She would Do Something
47Chapter XLII. In the Ballroom
48Chapter XLIII. His Chance
49Chapter XLIV. A Footstep
50Chapter XLV. The Passing Bell
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