The Founding, Cynthia HarrodEagles
The Founding, Cynthia HarrodEagles
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The Founding
The Morland Dynasty, Book 1

Author: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Narrator: Christopher Scott

Unabridged: 17 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/23/2012


Synopsis

The twenty-three volumes of the Morland Dynasty series has been completely repackaged in the most elegant style, using contemporaneous artwork for each period.

This wonderful series opens with the back drop of the Wars of the Roses with the marriage between Eleanor Morland and a scion of the influential house of Beaufort. It is a union which establishes the powerful Morland dynasty and in the succeeding volumes of this rich tapestry of English life, we follow their fortunes through war and peace, political upheaval and social revolution, times of pestilence and periods of plenty, and through the vicissitudes which afflict every family - love and passion, envy and betrayal, birth and death, great fortune and miserable penury.

The Morland Dynasty is entertainment of the most addictive kind.

About Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is the author of the hugely popular Morland Dynasty novels, which have captivated and enthralled readers for decades. She is also the author of the contemporary Bill Slider mystery series, as well as her recent series, Ashmore Castle, and War at Home, which is an epic family drama set against the backdrop of World War I. Cynthia's passions are music, wine, horses, architecture and the English countryside.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrea Fife on June 30, 2010

I was so disappointed! The characters and setting were amazing, and the historical aspects were interesting, but the story was terribly flat. I wanted to care what happened to the characters, but I just didn't. Where there should have been depth and emotion, there was "this happened, then this happe......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on March 30, 2010

From my blog...[return]The first in the Morland Dynasty Series, The Founding by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, is beautifully written with elaborate descriptions, and realistic characters making The Founding an intriguing novel to read, especially for those who are partial to historical fiction. The Foundin......more

Goodreads review by Deborah on November 05, 2016

Written in the 1980s, I am kinder about the historical howlers - the same level of research was just not expected then. I am fond of Ms Harrod-Eagles' 'Bill Slider' series and figured she would not have written anything positively unreadable. On first showing, this series may be a comfy fill-in when......more

Goodreads review by CLM on February 22, 2010

This is book one of an exhausting yet enjoyable series that begins during the Wars of the Roses. The heroine is a ward of the powerful Beaufort family with a secret passion for Richard, Duke of York (it is always a passion for Edward or Richard but never Edmund, for obvious reasons), yet is forced i......more

Goodreads review by Pauline on January 27, 2024

The saga of the Morland family begins in 1434 with the marriage of penniless gentlewoman Eleanor Courteney to Robert Morland, the son of a wealthy social-climbing sheep farmer. Eleanor, an orphan, has grown up in the south of England in the household of Lord Edmund Beaufort, and she is horrified at......more