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The Belton Estate

The Belton Estate

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Number of Chapters: 32

Length: 16 hours and 10 minutes

Language: English

Clara Amedroz is the virtuous, intelligent, and quick-witted heroine of this novel. Like all women of her time, she has few options other than to marry. She is lucky enough to have two eligible suitors, and chooses the more urbane and worldly of the two. Alas, however, she realizes fairly quickly that Captain Aylmer is not a nice person. Throughout much of the novel we find her trying hard not to recognize that Will Belton - the suitor she rejected, and who still loves and wants to marry her - is.

As in all of Trollope's novels, the sub-plots are at least as engaging as the main story: here, we find Clara associated with, and ultimately for some time dependent on, Mr. and Mrs. Askerton, who - having perforce lived together for some time before they were married - are social outcasts. Clara is courageous enough to remain loyal to these friends, knowing that thus she, too, risks social condemnation and reduces her value on the marital market-place.

She becomes wiser, more generous, and more forgiving as her outlook on the world matures in various trials-by fire: the experiences she endures as a result of her mistaken allegiance to Captain Aylmer; her friendship with the Askertons; and the malicious gossip and social ostracization attendant on her loyalty to them. The question that will decide her ultimate happiness is whether she can be as generous and forgiving of herself. (Summary by Kirsten Wever)

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Chapter 1 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 2 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 3 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 4 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 5 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 6 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 7 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 8 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 9 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 10 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 11 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 12 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 13 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 14 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 15 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 16 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 17 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 18 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 19 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 20 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 21 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 22 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 23 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 24 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 25 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 26 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 27 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 28 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 29 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 30 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 31 (Kirsten Wever)
Chapter 32 (Kirsten Wever)
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