The Hearth and Eagle, Anya Seton
The Hearth and Eagle, Anya Seton
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The Hearth and Eagle
A Novel

Author: Anya Seton

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Unabridged: 19 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/30/2021


Synopsis

"A substantial and well-told story that makes real one of the longest and most vigorous strands in the making of our country." —New York Herald Tribune

In the mid-1940s, the great historical novelist Anya Seton embarked on a fervent search for her forebears that led her to Marblehead, Massachusetts, a "sea-girdled town of rocks and winding lanes and clustered old houses." There she found not only an ancestor, but also the setting for this, her fourth novel. It is not only the story of Marblehead, from its earliest settlement to Seton's present, and of a family who settled and stayed there in the Hearth and Eagle Inn; it is also the story of Hesper Honeywood, a passionate young woman whose long and dramatic life, full of triumph and tragedy, contained the history of both. In one of her most ambitious novels, Anya Seton here created one of her most memorable heroines, and one of her most varied tales.

About Anya Seton

Anya Seton (1904-1990) wrote ten bestselling historical novels, including Avalon, Foxfire, Green Darkness, and My Theodosia. Although she lived primarily in Greenwich, Connecticut, she traveled extensively in order to do the research necessary for the lifelike feel of her fiction.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bob

History preserved through fiction Marblehead today is a yuppie heaven; shiny SUVs ply the tree-lined streets, and over-ample pseudo-colonial mansions crowd their small lots. North of Boston, "Marblehead" has become a synonym for "posh" and "snotty". This is ironic, for I remember it in my childhood,......more

Goodreads review by Carol

Beware the crypto-feminist agenda! Anya Seton is an author who gets a lot of respect as one of the foremothers of the romance genre. But if you actually haul one of her gigantic, dusty old tomes down from the highest shelf in the back room of the library, you find her real slant on love and romance i......more

Goodreads review by Mela

Ok, it is true, it wasn't a masterpiece of genre like Katherine (here my review) or The Winthrop Woman (here my review). I wasn't so gripped like with those two. But, one can easily see Seton's pen in 'The Hearth and Eagle'. Deep and wide historical research, an understanding of those times, no preju......more