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The Landleaguers

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(4,208 Sterne; 12 Bewertungen)

Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land by the Catholic Landleaguers. The Irish Land War has commenced, with the boycotting of wealthy landowners and a brutal chain of revenge killings. This is the story of Florian, his father, his two beautiful sisters, his adult brother Frank, and Frank’s beloved Rachel, an American singer working the London stage with her firebrand father. It’s also the story of the social order coming apart and then painfully coming back together in one Irish county. The Landleaguers was Anthony Trollope’s last book and was not completed before he died in 1882, but proceeds far enough to be a touching and engrossing story and to leave the reader pretty certain of the outcome. - Summary by Angie (11 hr 53 min)

Chapters

Mr. Jones of Castle Morony

18:44

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The Man in the Mask

16:16

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Father Brosnan

17:05

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Mr. Blake of Carnlough

11:49

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Mr. O'Mahoney and His Daughter

15:37

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Rachel and Her Lovers

14:36

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Brown's

18:51

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Christmas Day 1880

9:29

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Black Daly

17:42

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Ballytowngal

10:42

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Moytubber

14:20

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'Don't Hate Him, Ada'

12:29

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Edith's Eloquence

10:21

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Rachel's Correspondence

13:58

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Captain Yorke Clayton

15:39

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Captain Clayton Comes to the Castle

14:34

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Rachel is Free

12:25

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Frank Jones Has Ceased to Exist

20:22

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Fifth Avenue and Newport

10:23

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Boycotting

15:10

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Lax, the Murderer

12:48

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Morony Castle is Boycotted

13:27

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Tom Daly is Boycotted

12:01

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'From the Full Heart, the Mouth Speaks'

18:08

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The Galway Ball

13:03

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Lord Castlewell

19:20

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How Funds Were Provided

16:04

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What Was Not Done With the Funds

14:12

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What Was Done With the Funds

18:38

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The Road to Ballyglunin

13:47

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The Galway Court House

13:22

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Mr. O'Mahoney as Member of Parliament

14:30

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Captain Clayton's Lovemaking

11:53

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Lord Castlewell's Lovemaking

18:10

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Mr. O'Mahoney's Apology

18:36

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Rachel Writes About Her Lovers

11:21

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Rachel Is Ill

14:44

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Lord Castlewell is Much Troubled

14:30

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Captain Clayton's First Triumph

17:25

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Rachel Writes About Her Lovers

10:50

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The State of Ireland

23:31

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Lord Castlewell's Farewell

11:49

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Mr. Moss Is Finally Answered

12:50

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Frank Jones Comes Back Again

13:22

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Mr. Robert Morrise

15:29

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Cong

15:00

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Kerrycullion

14:05

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The New Aristocracy Fails

11:41

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Chapter 49 and Postscript

8:40

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Bewertungen

Well read; sad it wasn't finished

(4 Sterne)

Trollope wasn't able to complete this book, but what he did leave us was enough to thoroughly enjoy. The postscript at the end tells his intentions for the main characters, but it can pretty well be guessed at. The reader was very good. She does the Irish, British, and American accents, to my ears, equally well. There are some technical blips in the recordings - places where the microphone was rubbed or something - statics and distortions of that sort - but they don't last very long, so it's not too hard to dismiss them.

Great reader; great story

(5 Sterne)

Great reader; great story. Set me running to the history books and Wikipedia.