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1 online resource (1 audio file (1140 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
World's classics.
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Tim Bentinck. |
| Summary |
In Sybil, or The Two Nations, social activist, political reformer and twice Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli tells the love story of a young working-class woman and a newly elected nobleman. While on a visit to the manufacturing towns of the north, aristocrat Charles Egremont encounters beautiful Sybil Gerard, singing in the grounds of Marney Abbey. Graceful and angelic, Sybil Gerard is a symbol of religious purity. He also meets her father, a working-class radical, who tells him about the division of England into two nations: the rich and the poor. Moved by the episode, Egremont investigates the conditions of the working poor and witnesses the disturbing after-effects of the Industrial Revolution. He attempts to address the deep disparity, while falling increasingly in love with Sybil; however, his courtship is pitted against growing political unrest and violence caused by the calamitous two-nation divide. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Chartism -- Fiction.
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Landlord and tenant -- Fiction.
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Rich people -- Fiction.
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Poor families -- Fiction.
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Social classes -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Sheila M. (Sheila Mary), 1930-2014.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Two nations |
| ISBN |
9781781980132 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1781980136 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12406783 |
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