The Virgin in the Garden (Unabridged)

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The Virgin in the Garden (Unabridged) Author: A.S. Byatt Format: Audio Download Audio Length: 20 hours and 3 min. Rating: Retail Price: $89.95 Price: $62.97 You save $26.98 (29%)       Publisher's Summary: The time is 1953, the year of Queen Elizabeth's coronation; the place is a minor boys' school isolated in the Yorkshire moors. At the center of the story - Alexander Wedderburn, a young teacher whose imagination had been captured by the Queen Elizabeth of Shakespeare and Spenser, and who has written an historical verse play about her. Now, suddenly, his play is to be the climax of a local festival honoring the new Queen - it has been taken up by a wealthy patron of the arts who envisions its production on the most magnificent scale: summer-evening performances on the terrace of his great ancestral stately home; a pageant involving the whole countryside and local festival committees; a cultural resurgence and a mini-Renaissance. Here is a novel that holds us in suspense by the complexity of its revelations as it carries us to the great event of the play itself - in its Midsummer-Night's atmosphere of dream, of magic, of transforming revelry - that will alter forever the course of all the characters' lives.

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