Reef, The
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Reef, The

Edith Wharton
Performed By : Kristen Underwood
Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 10 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Classic Literature
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"The novel...was most enthusiastically admired by Henry James, and one can see
why, for it is most Jamesian...It marks the peak of her most brilliant period of creativity...And for us
it is a chance to see what can be achieved in the pursuit of moral truths."--Anita Brookner

A challenge to the moral climate of the day, The Reef follows the fancies of George Darrow,
a young diplomat en route from London to France, intent on proposing to the widowed Anna Leath.
Unsettled by Anna's reticence, Darrow drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly naive and
impecunious young woman whose relations with Darrow and Anna's family threaten his prospects for
success.

The affair becomes the reef on which four lives are in danger of foundering: two of them innocent, and
two of whom are burdened with experience and tinged with desperation. This is a story of the drastic
effects of a casual sexual betrayal and a clear-eyed assessment of the possibilities and limitations
of human love.

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McCarthy's Bar
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The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.

McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.

Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.