No Name (1862) - Wilkie Collins
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Rachel Atkins
Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Literature, Adults
Length: 27 hrs and 20 mins Release date: 05-07-20 Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks, Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown, and has a sense of her own importance, Magdalen and Norah Vanstone have known only comfort and affluence for their entire lives. Orphaned suddenly following the unexpected deaths of their parents, the illegitimate sisters find themselves flung into the other extreme of living: their father had neglected to amend his will following their parents recent marriage, leaving them with nothing, and their bitter, estranged uncle, the legal inheritor of the family fortune, mercilessly refuses them support., They have no money, no rights and no name. Norah, the elder of the two, looks for work as a governess and accepts her fate. Fiery and headstrong Magdalen, however, does not. She vows revenge and schemes a series of traps to recover the fortune, no matter the cost.Magdalen Vanstone struggles to reclaim her identity, the plot uncovers many
