Length7h 51m
About this audiobook
Robert Byng has recently returned from his Grand Tour of Europe to settle in New York City. An old friend lends Byng his rooms at Chrysalis College (an equivalent of real-life New York University, perhaps also partially modelled on the Tenth Street Studio Building). It is there that Byng meets his mysterious and reclusive neighbor Cecil Dreeme, and the two strike up a romantic friendship. However, Byng is also tempted by the villainous Densdeth, who seems to want the protagonist to fall into a life of unspecified sin and debauchery. Published posthumously by the author's friend George William Curtis in 1861, Cecil Dreeme has been called "one of the queerest American novels of the nineteenth century" by scholar Peter Coviello, and it addresses themes of gender and sexuality.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length7 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 8, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR
17EMMA DENMAN
2STILLFLEET AND HIS NEWS
18A MORNING WITH CECIL DREEME
3CHRYSALIS COLLEGE
19ANOTHER CASSANDRA
4RUBBISH PALACE
20CAN THIS BE LOVE?
5THE PALACE AND ITS NEIGHBORS
21A NOCTURNE
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6CHURM AGAINST DENSDETH
22LYDIAN MEASURES
7CHURM AS CASSANDRA
23A LAUGH AND A LOOK
8CHURM’S STORY
24A PARTING
9CLARA DENMAN, DEAD
25FAME AWAITS DREEME
10LOCKSLEY’S SCARE
26CHURM BEFORE DREEME’S PICTURE
11OVERHEAD, WITHOUT
27TOWNER
12OVERHEAD, WITHIN
28RALEIGH’S REVOLT
13DREEME, ASLEEP
29DENSDETH’S FAREWELL
14DREEME, AWAKE
30DREEME HIS OWN INTERPRETER
15A MILD ORGIE
31DENSDETH’S DARK ROOM
16A MORNING WITH DENSDETH
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