Production

Read by: Sarah Terry
Book Coordinator: Sarah Terry
Meta Coordinator: Karen Savage
Proof Listener: Paul Mazumdar

Artwork

Cover: The giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbor NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Hubble Space Telescope.
Inset: Title page to The Blazing-World
Inset: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Insert: Portrait of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1617-1673), wife of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1592-1676) 1665. The Portland Collection, Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate, Nottinghamshire
Insert: Map of the North Pole. The Geografic North Pole (1), The magnetic North Pole (2), The geo magnetic North pole (3) the place longest away from land (84°03’ north, 174° 51’ west) (4).

Track Title / Time

1         00 - Introduction             0:03

2         01 - Part 1, section 1     0:31

3         02 - Part 1, section 2     0:29

4         03 - Part 1, section 3     0:31

5         04 - Part 1, section 4        0:33

6         05 - Part 1, section 5     0:29

7         06 - Part 1, section 6     0:33

8         07 - Part 2, section 1     0:24

9         08 - Part 2, section 2     0:23

10     09 - Epilogue                     0:03


“The Blazing World” by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a defiant venture into a scientific world where women were not usually allowed. It tells the tale of a young Lady who is kidnapped by a man that tries to sail away with her. Through divine interference, however, the ship is tossed into a storm and everyone but the Lady perishes. Blown up to the North Pole, she inadvertently passes into to another world, the Blazing World, where she is almost immediately made supreme ruler. As the Lady begins to exercise her will, Cavendish lays out her own Utopia and discusses a wide range of scientific, political, social, and religious topics. But when a war breaks out in her home world, what will the Lady do with all power of the Blazing World behind her? Summary by Sarah Terry


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Item Info
EAN - DVD case 0602581788447
EAN - CD jacket 0602581788454
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD case, CD jacket, CD security sleeve, download
Author Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
Year 1666
Recording
Read by Sarah Terry
Length 4 hours and 2 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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