Late and Soon (NOVEL & 8 SHORT STORIES) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A 1940s British Novel and Stories of Class, Duty, Domestic Manners, and Wartime DilemmasBy E. M. Delafield
Length13h 39m
About this audiobook
Late and Soon gathers a late Delafield novel with eight short stories, presenting English middle-class life as a field of small ceremonies, delayed recognitions, and moral evasions. Its title's Wordsworthian echo—"The world is too much with us"—aptly frames a fiction concerned with wasted energies and compromised affections. Delafield's lucid, conversational irony turns domestic minutiae into social diagnosis, placing the volume between Austenian comedy of manners and the darker realism of wartime Britain. E. M. Delafield, the pen name of Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood (née de la Pasture), wrote from intimate knowledge of the institutions she anatomized: convent schooling, wartime service, marriage, motherhood, provincial respectability, and literary labour. Best remembered for The Diary of a Provincial Lady, she also produced sharper, more sombre studies of women constrained by class, duty, and habit; this late work distils those preoccupations. Readers seeking only the comic Provincial Lady will find here a deeper register: wit chastened by compassion. Late and Soon is recommended to admirers of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor, and interwar women's fiction, and to anyone interested in how social comedy becomes ethical inquiry.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length13 hrs 39 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 30, 2015
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
11Time Work Wonders (1924)
2Introduction
12The Hotel Child (1924)
3Historical Context
13The Gallant Little Lady (1924)
4Synopsis (Selection)
14Impasse (1924)
5Late and Soon (1943) (pt. 1)
15The Appeal (1924)
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6Late and Soon (1943) (pt. 2)
16The Philistine: A Story (1926)
7Late and Soon (1943) (pt. 3)
17Analysis
8Late and Soon (1943) (pt. 4)
18Reflection
9The Bond of Union (1924)
19Memorable Quotes
10Lost in Transmission (1924)
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