Read by Kristen Underwood
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Unabridged
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Anna Leath, an American widow living in France, has engaged in a love
affair with george Darrow, a diplomat. However, when Darrow is on his
way to consolidate marriage plans at Anna's beautiful French chateau,
he encounters Sophy Viner, a beauty who is as sprightly and spontaneous
as Anna is restrained and demur. Soon after, Anna's affair with Darrow
becomes the reef on which the lives of four people are in danger of
foundering.
"The novel... that 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
