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The Light That Failed
By Rudyard KiplingNarrated by Stuart Bennett, Kevin Kennedy, Marilyn Rose, Susan McCarthy, Dennis Glover, Bobbie Frohman, Al Bedrosian, Lou Spiegel, various narratorsLength8h 37m
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Dick Heldar is a war correspondent and an artist, well known for the drawings he sends home to the London papers from wars in exotic places like Sudan. When he returns to London, he attempts to make a career for himself as a serious artist and reencounters his childhood sweetheart, Maisie. Then he learns that a minor problem with his eyes is actually the onset of an incurable blindness, the result of a head injury during the war. As his vision fails, the light of everything around him—his life, hopes, and dreams—fails with it. Terrible choices must be made between the love of a woman and the love of the men who stood by him at the front.
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Rating★★★★ 3.9 (6.5K)
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Fantasy
Length8 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byStuart Bennett, Kevin Kennedy, Marilyn Rose, Susan McCarthy, Dennis Glover, Bobbie Frohman, Al Bedrosian, Lou Spiegel, various narrators
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJan 1, 2006
LanguageEnglish
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