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Author
Vernon Lee
Language
English
Genre
audiobook
by Vernon Lee
recording of A Phantom Lover, by Vernon Lee. Read by Anthony Leslie. A Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886.
Set in a Kentish manor house, the story concerns a portrait painter commissioned by a squire, William Oke, to produce portraits of him and his wife, the eccentric Mrs. Alice Oke, who bears a striking resemblance to a woman in a mysterious, seventeenth century painting. (Summary by Anthony Leslie) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the catalog page for this recording.
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I kept pausing to think about what I just heard. That's the mark of a good book for me — when it makes you stop and actually reflect. A Phantom Lover did that consistently.
Not a single chapter felt like filler. Vernon Lee respects your time and delivers value throughout. Went in expecting decent, came out genuinely impressed.
There are books you finish and forget. Then there are books like A Phantom Lover that you keep going back to mentally. This is the second kind. Brilliant.
My partner overheard me listening and ended up sitting down with me for the rest of it. We're both still talking about it. That's not nothing.
