An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

In An Eye for an Eye, Anthony Trollope turns a sharp, compassionate gaze on love, pride, and the quiet violence of social rules. When Fred Neville, a young English officer from a powerful family, is stationed in Ireland, he meets Kate McDermot, the spirited daughter of a struggling local gentleman. Their attraction is immediate, but the world around them is built to keep such a match from becoming more than a summer dream. Fred is bound by the expectations of rank, money, and family influence, while Kate and her father carry the weight of old grievances and a fierce sense of honor. As affection deepens into promises, every choice becomes entangled with questions of duty, reputation, and the long shadow of resentment between England and Ireland. Trollope builds the tension through intimate conversations, anxious letters, and the steady tightening of consequences, asking whether love can survive when it must be hidden, denied, or bargained over. With psychological precision and a mounting sense of inevitability, the novel explores how a single careless act can demand a terrible price.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:03:48) Chapter 01

(00:21:10) Chapter 02

(00:41:18) Chapter 03

(00:58:00) Chapter 04

(01:14:24) Chapter 05

(01:40:31) Chapter 06

(01:54:23) Chapter 07

(02:12:34) Chapter 08

(02:27:58) Chapter 09

(02:48:31) Chapter 10

(03:08:26) Chapter 11

(03:23:48) Chapter 12

(03:39:08) Chapter 13

(03:58:18) Chapter 14

(04:17:37) Chapter 15

(04:34:29) Chapter 16

(04:52:22) Chapter 17

(05:12:18) Chapter 18

(05:32:27) Chapter 19

(05:53:41) Chapter 20

(06:05:52) Chapter 21

(06:26:17) Chapter 22

(06:46:26) Chapter 23

(07:02:36) Chapter 24

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