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A Lost Lady
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
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Summary
To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forrester is the resident aristocrat, at once gracious and comfortably remote.
To her aging husband, she is a treasure whose value increases as his powers fail.
To Niel Herbert, who falls in love with her as a boy and becomes her confidant as a man, Mrs. Forrester is by turns steadfast and faithless, dazzling and pathetic.
Mrs. Forrester is a woman whose charm is intertwined with a terrifying vulnerability, and whose inevitable decline with age is symbolic of the West itself and its fall from the idealized age of noble pioneers to the age of capitalist exploitation, and A Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them.
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- writerbytrade
- 17-03-24
A classic of American literature
First read this 45 years ago as a student and oh my, how my reading and understanding of the story has changed since then. So much to think about here about relationships, women’s roles, work, class and race and the pioneer setting and its passing. I hope my reading this time had much greater sensitivity and empathy than when I was 19 and tended to view the narrator as the reliable moral nterpreter
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- Ms Dulcie Brookfield
- 25-03-24
the narrator
a long story but the natural nuanced expressions and voices of the characters by the narrator made the story come alive and entertain
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