The Guarded Heights & The Straight Path (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Romance, Suspense, and Moral Drama in an America of Class Change and Social ConstraintBy Charles Wadsworth Camp
Length14h 36m
About this audiobook
The Guarded Heights & The Straight Path brings together two works that reveal Charles Wadsworth Camp's fascination with moral pressure, social constraint, and the testing of character. Written in a polished early-twentieth-century American prose, the narratives combine popular storytelling with a serious concern for ethical choice and psychological motive. Camp's style is direct yet atmospheric, moving between romance, suspense, and social observation in a manner characteristic of post–World War I fiction, when inherited codes of conduct were being re-examined. Charles Wadsworth Camp was an American journalist, novelist, and war correspondent whose career trained him to observe crisis, secrecy, and human behavior under strain. His experience in newspaper work and his familiarity with military and social upheaval helped shape fiction attentive to both external action and inward conflict. Camp often wrote within popular genres, but his best work shows an alertness to class, duty, fear, and the uneasy compromises of modern life. This volume is recommended to readers interested in neglected American fiction, especially works that bridge romance, mystery, and moral drama. It will appeal to those who value lucid narration, period atmosphere, and stories in which suspense serves a deeper inquiry into conscience and conduct.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- 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, Literary Classics
Length14 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 2, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Guarded Heights & The Straight Path (Annotated)
2PART I OAKMONT
3PART II PRINCETON (pt. 1)
4PART II PRINCETON (pt. 2)
5PART III THE MARKET-PLACE (pt. 1)
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6PART III THE MARKET-PLACE (pt. 2)
7PART IV THE FOREST
8PART V THE NEW WORLD (pt. 1)
9PART V THE NEW WORLD (pt. 2)
10The Straight Path
11Memorable Quotes
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