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Irene Iddesleigh

by Amanda McKittrick Ros

First published
1897
Pages
110
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Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017), Patti Cunningham, Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) and others · 3 h 55 min · 19 parts

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  1. 01 - Chapter I

    4:36

  2. 02 - Chapter II

    9:08

  3. 03 - Chapter III

    6:16

  4. 04 - Chapter IV

    7:43

  5. 05 - Chapter V

    10:59

  6. 06 - Chapter VI

    12:03

  7. 07 - Chapter VII

    13:24

  8. 08 - Chapter VIII

    16:19

  9. 09 - Chapter IX

    6:55

  10. 10 - Chapter X

    13:09

  11. 11 - Chapter XI

    16:41

  12. 12 - Chapter XII

    23:20

  13. 13 - Chapter XIII

    12:32

  14. 14 - Chapter XIV

    13:55

  15. 15 - Chapter XV

    15:45

  16. 16 - Chapter XVI

    18:15

  17. 17 - Chapter XVII

    14:01

  18. 18 - Chapter XVIII

    14:54

  19. 19 - Chapter XIX

    5:31

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About this book

Amanda McKittrick Ros published this melodrama in 1897, financed by her husband as a tenth wedding anniversary present, and readers have argued about it ever since. Irene, an adopted noblewoman, marries Sir John Dunfern while still in love with her former tutor, Oscar Otwell. Love letters expose her, and Dunfern imprisons her in his manor for life. A maid helps her escape, and the elopement carries the couple to New York, where Otwell drinks away their money and Irene is left with nothing. The prose, not the plot, made the book famous. Ros reached for ornament in every sentence, and her alliteration and mangled syntax produce effects no trained writer could manage. Mark Twain called it one of the greatest unintentionally humorous novels of all time, and the Inklings read it aloud to see who could last longest without laughing.

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Amanda McKittrick Ros

Born Anna Margaret McKittrick in County Down, Ireland, Amanda McKittrick Ros (1860–1939) trained as a teacher in Dublin and married Andrew Ross, the station master at Larne, in 1887.

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First published
1897
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
110
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Andy Minter (1934-2017), Patti Cunningham, Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) and others