The alchemist's daughter
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
Published
Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, p2006.
Format
Audiobook CD
Edition
Library ed.
Status
Port Angeles - Talking Books
AUDBK MCMAHO Kath
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AUDBK MCMAHO Kath
1 available
Copies
| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Port Angeles - Talking Books | AUDBK MCMAHO Kath | Available |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Alchemists -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
Country homes -- Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Scientists -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Social isolation -- Fiction.
Talking books.
Young women -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
Country homes -- Fiction.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Scientists -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
Social isolation -- Fiction.
Talking books.
Young women -- Fiction.
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Published
Santa Ana, CA : Books on Tape, p2006.
Edition
Library ed.
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (ca. 71 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Unabridged.
General Note
Compact disc.
Participants/Performers
Read by Justine Eyre.
Description
A student of Isaac Newton, John Selden believes he can turn his daughter into a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. Secluded in their ancient house, with only two servants for company, he fills Emilie with knowledge and records her progress obsessively. In the spring of 1725, their work is interrupted by the arrival of two strangers: one a researcher, the other a dazzling young merchant. During the course of a sultry August, while her father is away, Emilie experiences the passion of first love. Listening to her heart rather than her head, she makes a choice. Banished to London and plunged headlong into a society that is both glamorous and ruthless, Emilie discovers that for all her extraordinary education she has no insight into the workings of the human heart. When she tries to return to the world of books and study, she instead unravels a shocking secret that sets her on her true journey to enlightenment.