Length2h 51m
About this audiobook
"The Dead Alive": A fitting companion to The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins produced one of the first, if not the first, court room drama in whose footsteps a myriad of subsequent authors have followed. Based on a true story, Collins adds a narrator and a confidant but few other embellishments illustrating how easily the cause of justice can be perverted. Along the way he casts a few jibes at "Americans" and Christianity in a moderately melodramatic tale that progresses to its inevitable conclusion of a wrongful conviction. "A Fair Penitent": The short story is written in the form of an editor presenting a manuscript by a former actress of the Paris stage in the early 18th century. This actress, a Mademoiselle Gautier, realises that her life of pleasure and vice is headed for a bad end and so she decides to enter a convent. Her desire to completely repent takes her from the rather cozy quarters of one order to the more austere regimen of the Carmelites. An encounter with a Trappist monk leader makes the idea of flagellation sound like the perfect recipe. (Goodreads)
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length2 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 17, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I.
8CHAPTER VIII.
2CHAPTER II.
9CHAPTER IX.
3CHAPTER III.
10CHAPTER X.
4CHAPTER IV.
11CHAPTER XI.
5CHAPTER V.
12CHAPTER XII.
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6CHAPTER VI.
13A Fair Penitent
7CHAPTER VII.
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