Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland ~ Full Audiobook [romance]

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04/26/23

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Pierre and Luce by Romain Rolland audiobook.

Genre: romance

Set in Paris during the final year of World War I, Pierre and Luce follows two teenagers who meet by chance in the shadow of air raid sirens and long range shelling. Pierre, a sensitive and thoughtful schoolboy, has been pushed into adulthood by the constant pressure of loss and uncertainty. Luce, younger but fiercely alive, carries her own private world of art, curiosity, and stubborn hope. Drawn together in a city where tomorrow is never guaranteed, they begin to share stolen hours in museums, on streets suddenly emptied by alarms, and in quiet conversations that feel like shelter. Yet their growing closeness is not a simple escape: it forces Pierre to confront fear, duty, and the expectations of family and nation, while Luce must defend the right to tenderness and imagination in a time that treats both as luxuries. Romain Rolland writes their awakening with lyric intimacy and a clear pacifist heartbeat, asking what love can mean when history insists on destruction. The result is a brief, luminous story of youth, compassion, and the fragile courage to live fully in the present.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:24:46) Chapter 2

(00:48:38) Chapter 3

(01:03:08) Chapter 4

(01:17:55) Chapter 5

(01:39:11) Chapter 6

(01:57:51) Chapter 7

(02:16:56) Chapter 8

(02:36:25) Chapter 9

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Armand Durand by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon ~ Full Audiobook [romance]

April 24, 2023

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475m

Armand Durand by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon audiobook.

Genre: romance

Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family.

Paul Durand, a prosperous Québécois farmer, marries in quick succession two very different wives, and fathers two very different sons. The first son, Armand, delicate and bookish, is destined for a legal career in the city; the second, Paul Junior, tougher and down-to-earth, continues life on the farm. The story deals with troubling aspects of parental, sibling, and marital relationships.

Armand Durand may be one of the best Canadian novels that no one has heard of. It was well received in both its English and French editions, but is today hard to find, especially in the original English. Silenced Sextet (1993), a study of 19th-century Canadian women authors whose works were initially popular but later slipped into obscurity, offers this assessment: “it is a mature novel, valuable for its complex human relationships and also for its glimpses of Montreal life in Leprohon’s own time and of rural Quebec life in somewhat earlier days.”

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:19:37) Chapter 02

(00:43:17) Chapter 03

(01:05:22) Chapter 04

(01:29:40) Chapter 05

(01:47:16) Chapter 06

(02:29:33) Chapter 07

(02:46:32) Chapter 08

(03:04:08) Chapter 09

(03:25:39) Chapter 10

(03:43:48) Chapter 11

(04:04:16) Chapter 12

(04:44:00) Chapter 13

(04:57:42) Chapter 14

(05:30:27) Chapter 15

(05:54:45) Chapter 16

(06:26:10) Chapter 17

(07:02:27) Chapter 18

(07:20:58) Chapter 19

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The Romance of an Old Fool by Roswell Field ~ Full Audiobook [romance]

April 27, 2023

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184m

The Romance of an Old Fool by Roswell Field audiobook.

Genre: romance

John Stanhope is a comfortable, successful widower in middle life, content with his books, his country routines, and the dry-witted company of Bunsey, a would-be novelist who is forever observing (and judging) the romantic impulses of others. Yet when a chance trip draws John back to the small town of his boyhood, old streets and familiar names awaken a longing he did not know was still alive. Among renewed friendships and remembered places, he learns that Sylvia, the girl who once shaped his earliest idea of love, died soon after he left. In her absence, John finds himself captivated by Sylvia's daughter, Phyllis, whose youth, charm, and resemblance to the past blur the line between memory and desire. As John drifts from nostalgia into courtship, the town's quiet expectations, the warnings of practical friends, and his own uneasy self-knowledge force him to ask what, exactly, he is pursuing: a real future, or a beautifully preserved illusion. Wry, tender, and sharply observant, this novella explores aging, loneliness, and the strange ways the heart rewrites history.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:37:12) Chapter 2

(00:54:52) Chapter 3

(01:11:38) Chapter 4

(01:35:52) Chapter 5

(02:01:42) Chapter 6

(02:20:37) Chapter 7

(02:44:00) Chapter 8

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