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The French Lieutenant's woman

Well-known as an international bestseller and Award-winning film, The French lieutenant's woman by John Fowles is magnificent entertainment. This virtuoso reading by actor Jeremy Irons is storytelling at its best. Fowles' intricate portrait of Victorian relationships and love, brought to life by Irons' artistry, will haunt you long after the story ends.

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  • "Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a digraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age."
  • "Well-known as an international bestseller and Award-winning film, The French lieutenant's woman by John Fowles is magnificent entertainment. This virtuoso reading by actor Jeremy Irons is storytelling at its best. Fowles' intricate portrait of Victorian relationships and love, brought to life by Irons' artistry, will haunt you long after the story ends."@en
  • "PLAYAWAY. At Lyme Regis on the Dorset coast, a young Victorian amateur palaeontologist, Charles Smithson, is struck by a solitary figure standing at the far end of the Cobb, staring out to sea. It is Sarah Woodruff, known to the locals as 'poor Tragedy' since her apparent liaison with a French sailor who has since deserted her. Although Charles is already engaged to a young heiress, he is immediagely beguiled and eventually infatuated by Sarah - container."
  • "The story, an immaculate recreation of Victorian England, of an obsessive and illicit love which challenges and confounds the sexual conventions of the age."@en
  • "A woman, ostracized by Victorian society and abandoned by her French lover, fascinates a man who resolves to unravel the mystery of her clandestine past.--"@en
  • "[This novel] immerses us in the emotionally charged world of a Victorian love triangle and ... reveals the image of modern man reflected in the past. -Back cover."@en
  • "The stern society of Victorian England is viewed from the perspective of a modern author."@en
  • "A woman, ostracized by Victorian society and abandoned by her French lieutenant lover, fascinates a man who resolves to unravel the mystery of her clandestine past."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Kvindeskildringer"
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  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "History"@en
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  • "The French Lieutenant's woman"@en
  • "French Lieutenants' Woman"
  • "The French lieutenant's woman"
  • "The French lieutenant's woman"@en
  • "The French lieutenant's woman [talking book]"@en
  • "The French lieutenant's woman Unabridged narration by Paul Shelley"@en
  • "[The] French lieutenant's woman"

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