A well-behaved woman a novel of the Vanderbilts

DAISY Sound Recording 2020

Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built 9 mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming...

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Edition:

Daisy edition
Computer data (1 file : 197 mb)

Description:

1 DAISY disc (14 hr., 20 min.) : sound ; 12 cm
digital DAISY
4 3/4 in

Notes:

Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials
Read by Barrie Kreinik
Audio and text
DAISY reproduction. New York : Macmillan Audio, 2018
Reproduced from: New York : Macmillan Audio, 2018. 9781427299192
System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software
Digital to DAISY
DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps
Studio original

Control Number:

3164953

Other Authors:

Centre for Equitable Library Access (Canada)
Kreinik, Barrie, narrator

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