Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

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12/16/22

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292m

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Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster audiobook.

Genre: drama

In this sharply observed early novel by E. M. Forster, a well-meaning English family tries to manage a scandal that has carried one of their own far beyond the safe boundaries of Edwardian respectability. After the spirited young widow Lilia Herriton marries an Italian much younger than herself, the Herritons are determined to contain the embarrassment and restore control, sending emissaries abroad to retrieve her and repair the family's reputation. But in the sunlit Tuscan town of Monteriano, their assumptions about class, propriety, and morality begin to buckle against a culture they do not understand - and against Lilia's own hunger for life. As misunderstandings multiply, Forster contrasts English restraint with Italian immediacy, revealing how pride and condescension can masquerade as duty. Caught between loyalty and conscience, the visitors must decide whether they are rescuing a vulnerable woman or protecting themselves from the discomfort of change. Witty, unsettling, and deeply humane, Where Angels Fear to Tread explores love, hypocrisy, and the cost of imposing certainty on other people's lives.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:27:24) Chapter 02

(00:57:52) Chapter 03

(01:22:47) Chapter 04

(01:44:18) Chapter 05

(02:22:43) Chapter 06

(03:13:28) Chapter 07

(03:39:36) Chapter 08

(04:14:01) Chapter 09

(04:27:27) Chapter 10

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A Passage to India by E. M. Forster ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 16, 2022

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837m

A Passage to India by E. M. Forster audiobook.

Genre: drama

E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India (1924) is widely acclaimed as one of the hundred best literary works of 20th century. Time magazine rates it among the top 100 English-language novels of all time.

A Passage to India is set at the moment when the lasting supremacy of the British Raj could no longer be taken for granted. Imperial power had been effectively supported by old and deep-seated religious and cultural conflicts between India’s Hindu and Muslim populations, which divided and sapped the local powers ultimately needed to overthrew imperial rule in 1947. Forster illustrates how this rift begins to be overshadowed by the increasing resistance of all Indians to the extreme racism, oppression and socio-political mismanagement of British rule.

The work is perhaps best known for his brilliant development of the relationships between his characters, which are fraught by a wide range of precarious cultural, social, political and economic dualisms: e.g., Occident / Orient; imperialist / colonial; men / women. He carries the idea expressed in his famous words “only connect” (from Howards End) to its limits, examining the difficulties – often the inherent impossibility – of “connection” across racial, sexual, religious and social divides.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:07:00) Chapter 02

(00:42:03) Chapter 03

(01:09:20) Chapter 04

(01:17:15) Chapter 05

(01:52:51) Chapter 06

(02:15:03) Chapter 07

(03:05:25) Chapter 08

(03:55:54) Chapter 09

(04:30:45) Chapter 10

(04:35:04) Chapter 11

(04:55:03) Chapter 12

(05:04:39) Chapter 13

(05:21:44) Chapter 14

(06:15:21) Chapter 15

(06:24:20) Chapter 16

(06:47:46) Chapter 17

(06:57:59) Chapter 18

(07:13:06) Chapter 19

(07:34:07) Chapter 20

(08:07:47) Chapter 21

(08:11:03) Chapter 22

(08:44:42) Chapter 23

(08:54:18) Chapter 24

(09:46:01) Chapter 25

(10:03:51) Chapter 26

(10:32:35) Chapter 27

(10:46:57) Chapter 28

(10:53:57) Chapter 29

(11:15:36) Chapter 30

(11:29:00) Chapter 31

(11:54:45) Chapter 32

(11:58:09) Chapter 33

(12:19:56) Chapter 34

(12:32:14) Chapter 35

(12:51:50) Chapter 36

(13:25:44) Chapter 37

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Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

December 16, 2022

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212m

Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton audiobook.

Genre: drama

In a quiet, down-at-the-heels corner of turn-of-the-century New York, sisters Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner scrape together a living by running a tiny notions shop. Their days are measured in pennies, thread spools, and careful routines, and their world feels small but safe - until a seemingly simple decision pulls them into the broader city and the risky hopes it offers. When they befriend the gentle, struggling clock repairman Herman Ramy, the sisters find their hard-won stability tested by desire, loyalty, and the ache of wanting more than survival. Edith Wharton turns this modest setting into a sharp, compassionate study of the costs of kindness and the quiet violence of poverty, where every gift carries a weight and every choice can reshape a life. As aspirations rise and misunderstandings multiply, Ann Eliza must navigate the tender bond she shares with Evelina and the painful question of what love requires - for a sister, for a friend, and for oneself.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:16:32) Chapter 02

(00:37:08) Chapter 03

(00:45:12) Chapter 04

(00:55:03) Chapter 05

(01:07:58) Chapter 06

(01:15:46) Chapter 07

(01:37:27) Chapter 08

(01:56:51) Chapter 09

(02:14:49) Chapter 10