Monticello
- Author: Sally Cabot Gunning
- Narrator: Cassandra Campbell
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 23:48:52
Synopsis
From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter—Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jefferson Randolph.
After the death of her beloved mother, Martha Jefferson spent five years abroad with her father, Thomas Jefferson, on his first diplomatic mission to France. Now, at seventeen, Jefferson’s bright, handsome eldest daughter is returning to the lush hills of the family’s beloved Virginia plantation, Monticello. While the large, beautiful estate is the same as she remembers, Martha has changed. The young girl that sailed to Europe is now a woman with a heart made heavy by a first love gone wrong.
The world around her has also become far more complicated than it once seemed. The doting father she idolized since childhood has begun to pull away. Moving back into political life, he has become distracted by the tumultuous fight for power and troubling new attachments. The home she adores depends on slavery, a practice Martha abhors. But Monticello is burdened by debt, and it cannot survive without the labor of her family’s slaves. The exotic distant cousin she is drawn to has a taste for dangerous passions, dark desires that will eventually compromise her own.
As her life becomes constrained by the demands of marriage, motherhood, politics, scandal, and her family’s increasing impoverishment, Martha yearns to find her way back to the gentle beauty and quiet happiness of the world she once knew at the top of her father’s “little mountain.”
Chapters
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011 Chapter 10
Duration: 14min -
012 Chapter 11
Duration: 24min -
013 Chapter 12
Duration: 14min -
014 Chapter 13
Duration: 10min -
015 Chapter 14
Duration: 09min -
016 Chapter 15
Duration: 15min -
017 Chapter 16
Duration: 13min -
018 Chapter 17
Duration: 17min -
019 Chapter 18
Duration: 23min -
020 Chapter 19
Duration: 20min -
021 Chapter 20
Duration: 18min -
022 Chapter 21
Duration: 18min -
023 Chapter 22
Duration: 15min -
024 Chapter 23
Duration: 14min -
025 Chapter 24
Duration: 15min -
026 Chapter 25
Duration: 20min -
027 Chapter 26
Duration: 11min -
028 Chapter 27
Duration: 10min -
029 Chapter 28
Duration: 10min -
030 Chapter 29
Duration: 13min