Ordeal of Richard Feverel
George Meredith
45 chapters · 18 h 42 min · English
Read by Jim Locke, Rita Boutros, jenno, Andy Lilley
General Fiction
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After his wife's desertion, Sir Austin wants to bring up his son according to a strict educational system governing every aspect of his life. However Richard has to make his own mistakes, fall in love, and generally live his own life. This book tells about the clashes between Richard's wish to govern his own life to his father's constant interference. This book was very influential. The leading libraries of the day considered it too frank and sexually explicit and refused to buy it. Later authors including E. M. Forster, Oscar Wilde and Virginia Woolf admired and respected it. - Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia
Chapters
1 01. The Inmates of Raynham Abbey 19 min 2 02. Showing How the Fates Selected the Fourteenth Birthday to Try the Strength of the System 20 min 3 03. The Magian Conflict 10 min 4 04. Arson 24 min 5 05. Adrian Plies His Hook 11 min 6 06. Juvenile Stratagems 18 min 7 07. Daphne's Bower 13 min 8 08. The Bitter Cup 19 min 9 09. A Fine Distinction 14 min 10 10. Richard Passes Through His Preliminary Ordeal, and is the Occasion of an Aphorism 17 min 11 11. In which the Last Act of the Bakewell Comedy is Closed in a Letter 14 min 12 12. The Blossoming Season 30 min 13 13. The Magnetic Age 22 min 14 14. An Attraction 15 min 15 15. Ferdinand and Miranda 23 min 16 16. Unmasking of Master Ripton Thompson 24 min 17 17. Good Wine and Good Blood 15 min 18 18. The System Encounters the Wild Oats Special Plea 10 min 19 19. A Diversion Played on a Penny-Whistle 10 min 20 20. Celebrates the Time-Honoured Treatment of a Dragon by the Hero 43 min 21 21. Richard is Summoned to Town to Hear a Sermon 21 min 22 22. Indicates the Approaches of Fever 25 min 23 23. Crisis in the Apple-Disease 31 min 24 24. Of the Spring Primrose and the Autumnal 14 min 25 25. In which the Hero Takes a Step 37 min 26 26. Records the Rapid Development of the Hero 36 min 27 27. Contains an Intercession for the Heroine 8 min 28 28. Relates How Preparations for Action Were Conducted Under the April of Lovers 44 min 29 29. In which the Last Act of a Comedy Takes the Place of the First 33 min 30 30. Celebrates the Breakfast 22 min 31 31. The Philosopher Appears in Person 20 min 32 32. Procession of the Cake 43 min 33 33: Norsing The Devil 27 min 34 34. Conquest of an Epicure 52 min 35 35. Clare's Marriage 39 min 36 36. A Dinner-Party at Richmond 41 min 37 37. Mrs. Berry on Matrimony 30 min 38 38. An Enchantress 44 min 39 39. The Little Bird and the Falcon; a Berry to the Rescue! 33 min 40 40. Clare's Diary 39 min 41 41. Austin Returns 23 min 42 42. Nature Speaks 21 min 43 43. Again the Magian Conflict 16 min 44 44. The Last Scene 42 min 45 45. Lady Blandish to Austin Wentworth 10 min
