Cecil Dreeme (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Queer Classic NovelBy Theodore Winthrop
Length8h 3m
About this audiobook
Cecil Dreeme is a darkly atmospheric novel of New York intellectual and artistic life, blending romance, mystery, Gothic melodrama, and social satire. Set amid studios, boarding houses, and shadowed urban interiors, it follows the entanglement of Robert Byng with the enigmatic artist Cecil Dreeme and the sinister figure of Densdeth. Winthrop's prose is ornate, ironic, and psychologically alert, placing the book within the mid-nineteenth-century American tradition of Hawthornean moral ambiguity while anticipating later urban fiction concerned with disguise, desire, and unstable identity. Theodore Winthrop, born in 1828, was a Yale-educated traveler, writer, and Union officer whose literary reputation was largely posthumous; he was killed in 1861 at Big Bethel early in the Civil War. His wide travels, cosmopolitan education, and familiarity with New York's cultural circles inform the novel's refined yet uneasy atmosphere. Like much of Winthrop's fiction, Cecil Dreeme reflects a mind drawn to aesthetic idealism, masculine friendship, moral peril, and the pressures of modern social performance. Readers interested in neglected classics of American fiction will find Cecil Dreeme both compelling and unusual. Its melodramatic machinery may be of its period, but its fascination with gender, secrecy, art, and urban alienation remains striking. It is especially rewarding for those who enjoy Gothic fiction, nineteenth-century literary history, and novels that make identity itself a mystery.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 3.7 (106)
Includes Goodreads
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length8 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1New York Narratives: A 40-Book Library of Old New York Stories & Novels
18Emma Denman
2Biographical Sketch of the Author
19A Morning with Cecil Dreeme
3Stillfleet and His News
20Another Cassandra
4Chrysalis College
21Can This Be Love?
5Rubbish Palace
22A Nocturne
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6The Palace and Its Neighbors
23Lydian Measures
7Churm Against Densdeth
24A Laugh and a Look
8Churm As Cassandra
25A Parting
9Churm’s Story
26Fame Awaits Dreeme
10Clara Denman, Dead
27Churm Before Dreeme’s Picture
11Locksley’s Scare
28Towner
12Overhead, Without
29Raleigh’s Revolt
13Overhead, Within
30Densdeth’s Farewell
14Dreeme, Asleep
31Dreeme His Own Interpreter
15Dreeme, Awake
32Densdeth’s Dark Room
16A Mild Orgie
33Memorable Quotes
17A Morning with Densdeth
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