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The Founding
- Author
- Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Narrator
- Christopher Scott
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 23 January 2012
- Run Time
- 17 hours 37 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
This wonderful series opens with the back drop of the Wars of the Roses with the marriage between Eleanor Morland and a scion of the influential house of Beaufort. It is a union which establishes the powerful Morland dynasty and in the succeeding volumes of this rich tapestry of English life, we follow their fortunes through war and peace, political upheaval and social revolution, times of pestilence and periods of plenty, and through the vicissitudes which afflict every family - love and passion, envy and betrayal, birth and death, great fortune and miserable penury.
The Morland Dynasty is entertainment of the most addictive kind.
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Details
- Author
- Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
- Narrator
- Christopher Scott
- Duration
- 17 hours 37 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 January 2012
- ISBN
- 9781405514811
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Family saga / generational saga fiction, Speculative fiction, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Historical romance, Alternative history fiction
Synopsis
The twenty-three volumes of the Morland Dynasty series has been completely repackaged in the most elegant style, using contemporaneous artwork for each period. This wonderful series opens with the back drop of the Wars of the Roses with the marriage between Eleanor Morland and a scion of the influential house of Beaufort. It is a union which establishes the powerful Morland dynasty and in the succeeding volumes of this rich tapestry of English life, we follow their fortunes through war and peace, political upheaval and social revolution, times of pestilence and periods of plenty, and through the vicissitudes which afflict every family - love and passion, envy and betrayal, birth and death, great fortune and miserable penury.The Morland Dynasty is entertainment of the most addictive kind.
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