The spoils of Poynton
(2020)
Fiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Naxos Audiobooks, 2020
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 06 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781781983478 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT13898419, 178198347X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 13898419
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Juliet Stevenson
Published in 1897, The Spoils of Poynton is one of the quintessential works of James's middle period. The 'spoils' of the book's title refer to furniture and other objets d'art that the widow Adela Gereth moves to her cottage so that they are kept away from the clutches of her coarse future daughter-in-law, Mona Brigstock. However, events take an unexpected turn when her married son Owen is attracted to her friend, Fleda Vetch. This tightly constructed novel, one of James's shortest, depicts the struggle between mother and son, with the idealistic and put-upon Fleda caught in the crossfire
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