Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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09/05/22

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315m

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Crucial Instances by Edith Wharton audiobook.

Genre: drama

Crucial Instances is a keenly observed collection of short fiction in which Edith Wharton turns ordinary social rituals into high-stakes tests of character. Across a range of settings - drawing rooms, country estates, and the quietly charged spaces between husbands and wives - Wharton follows men and women caught at the exact moment when a single choice can reshape a life. A wife confronts the cost of loyalty and self-respect, an ambitious outsider learns what entry into polite society truly demands, and private desires press against public expectations with consequences that linger long after a conversation ends. With her trademark precision, Wharton examines class, marriage, money, reputation, and the subtle power struggles that govern seemingly refined worlds. Each story builds toward a decisive instant: a confession withheld, an invitation accepted, a truth recognized too late, or a moral line crossed almost imperceptibly. Elegant, psychologically sharp, and often quietly unsettling, Crucial Instances reveals how the smallest actions can become turning points - and how the most decisive battles are sometimes fought in silence.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:43:09) Chapter 2

(01:20:32) Chapter 3

(02:03:07) Chapter 4

(02:29:43) Chapter 5

(03:06:53) Chapter 6

(03:43:16) Chapter 7

(04:26:05) Chapter 8

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Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy]

September 5, 2022

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Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann audiobook.

Genre: fantasy

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.

He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann, and the author of the novelette The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppelia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote. Also Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on one of Hoffmann's characters.

Master Flea was published in 1822.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:26:35) Chapter 02

(00:54:18) Chapter 03

(01:21:26) Chapter 04

(01:38:48) Chapter 05

(02:05:37) Chapter 06

(02:30:38) Chapter 07

(02:47:10) Chapter 08

(03:04:55) Chapter 09

(03:34:59) Chapter 10

(04:07:03) Chapter 11

(04:22:08) Chapter 12

(04:50:18) Chapter 13

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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]

September 5, 2022

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248m

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

In a stark New England town locked in winter for much of the year, Ethan Frome lives a narrowed life of duty and quiet desperation. Once a young man with ambitions beyond the hills of Starkfield, Ethan now struggles to keep a failing farm and a small sawmill going while caring for his sickly, controlling wife, Zeena. When Zeena's cousin, Mattie Silver, comes to stay as a hired companion, her warmth and simple liveliness bring light into the Frome household-and into Ethan's imagination of a different future. But Starkfield is a place where money is scarce, gossip is close, and obligation grips hard. As Ethan grows increasingly attached to Mattie, he is forced to measure desire against responsibility, and hope against the grim arithmetic of survival. Edith Wharton builds a tense, intimate portrait of a man caught between moral constraint and longing, where even small choices carry enormous weight. With icy landscapes mirroring emotional isolation, the novel explores poverty, loneliness, and the quiet tragedies that unfold when love arrives too late and freedom costs more than a person can pay.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:31:58) Chapter 01

(00:52:53) Chapter 02

(01:13:50) Chapter 03

(01:27:36) Chapter 04

(01:56:42) Chapter 05

(02:10:24) Chapter 06

(02:21:32) Chapter 07

(02:50:31) Chapter 08

(03:10:31) Chapter 09