Hi these are all the chapters ive listened to so far in order :) (im still reading with her so its not all of them yet) 14:18 - chapter 2 26:01 - chapter 3 39:21 - chapter 4 50:02 - chapter 5 1:07:46 - chapter 6 1:22:57 - chapter 7 1:35:20 - chapter 8 1:50:08 - chapter 9
not sure if you guys cares but if you are stoned like me during the covid times you can watch all the latest movies and series on instaflixxer. I've been streaming with my girlfriend during the lockdown :)
Yay, the Edith Wharton classic recorded and accessible for my listening pleasure. Ms. Wharton's novels and short stories are particularly unique among the women authors of her era when you consider the fact that she was born into a rather wealthy family and traveled in the same "circles" of which were common topics in her offerings. I would be interested in a well researched biography about Edith Wharton. Thanks for sharing this post on UA-cam!
there's people like you and there's high schoolers trying to get an A on the exam they give after summer ends. this entire recording sounds like a jumble of boomer words i can't understand a HINT OF PROGRESSION. it's so fekking hard to follow man. WHY DON'T SCHOOLS MAKE US READ BOOKS WE WANT TO READ. WHY DO I HAVE TO READ THIS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@cloroxbleach6380 - I don't know if your response is directly to me in particular, but, you hit the nail on the head as I excelled in English classes when I was a teenager and I am also a retired English educator. Even so, I have questioned certain novels that are REQUIRED reading according to the public school's curriculum. Fortunately, my department head gave the English teachers some discretion to choose the young adult novels for our classes. I would also like to remind you that the English language is difficult. And, even it is your native language, just like learning ANY language, it takes hard work and diligence. I taught in the inner city, and whenever it was time for my unit on Shakespeare, EVERY ONE of my students could read (understand), "translate" and even write at least a Shakespearean style sentence. The only students who could not accomplish this simply didn't try, period.
@@lynnmetzner4578 it wasn't to you specifically. it feels reassuring that kids who failed didn't try. I'm really trying my best to understand this text.
Chapter 16 is at 3:55:12 Chapter 17 is at 4:13:12 Chapter 18 is at 4:32:02 Chapter 19 is at 4:53:60 Chapter 20 is at 5:14:15 21: 5:37:00 22: 6:01:08 23: 6:18:28 24: 6:37:00 25: 6:47:42 26: 7:04:20 27: 7:24:20
SPOILERS!!!!: I realize that it is incredibly romantic in the terms of the day for him to just walk back to his hotel after the allusion to their meeting by the dock. I realize that the idea of their romance was perhaps more romantic then their actual romance. If I were he though, I would have met her. I realize that time may have separated them completely, and that she may not have even the slightest interest in him at that point. However, to dare against all failure to dare either humiliation or disappointment seemed entirely worth it to me. I realize that this is how people lived in old New York, but hadn't they both rejected that? I mean they accepted it as a reality and an important rule, but they seemed to never accept it upon themselves.
watched the movie many years ago...but just reading the book now...ultimate question for the movie/book: why didn't newland archer go with his son and meet ellen whom he had not seen for thirty years? i don't expect them to continue what they had, but was he not curious how both of them would react if they saw each other again? ...thanks!
Because its one thing to recognize such things and quite another to go against the conditioning of your life when certain teachings have been so deeply ingrained upon you that they are equally a part of who you are as much as any love might be. Its not as if Newland doesn't care for May...it's not an arranged marriage or anything as Wharton points out...its just he is in love with what May represents that's best about 'his world' and Ellen Olenska is foreign to him...which may be part of her charm...they don't even 'speak the same language' on a mental level...they just happen to be passionately in love with each other...which sometimes isn't enough when the pull of the society around you and the happiness of others depends upon you not being together. Such things happen in this day and age let alone then! People being together and marrying because its somehow 'expected' of them...whether they want to or not. Newland, Ellen and May are all conditioned by the world around them and rely upon it to such a degree that they can not go outside it...eventually they must succumb to it...either happily or not...that's the reason why Newland doesn't see Ellen at the end...so they can stay true to the memory of each other and their ideals of the world that just so happens to make their love impossible...and painful...that's the tragedy of the story and the genius in how Wharton conveys the 'age of innocence' of her time, which was never really 'innocent' in the true sense.
I can tell you why. It is the same reason I will not meet my lover from 38 years ago who just contacted me. I want to remember the sweet days of our youth, the passion and the love we shared them. I don't want to spoil it by seeing his eyes when he sees how I have aged.
The answer is in the first chapter: Newland Archer is, at his heart, a dilletant. He has and will never commit himself to anything. This temptation of real passion is something he dabbles with, no different from any other dalliance in his life. While he fancies himself full of rebellious thoughts, he is, like May, a creation of his social conditioning. He thinks that May is innocent, so much that he thinks that he can reveal the world to her, yet Newland himself is innocent, perhaps ignorant, of how little he can deviate from the path chosen for him.
Well not all people, merely the upper crust. But no group is perfectly what they seem, so any human flaw and affair you find amongst people, you'd find here. It was a matter of discretion and going around the rules, as the author herself was discovered to have affairs, which no one knew of until well after her death. Much like the European ton, there was every sort of hypocrisy and game played. Appearances has a price, and in any society where they're kept, there's going to be those who break under them. In this same society there were, as with aristocratic europe, the covering up of sins and abuses. The offspring often growing up emotionally stunted or detached to the point when all the material trappings were found empty, the relationship shallow, depression or addictions overtook them. The cures for such were often drugs and sedatives, and while males often could openly indulge in vices and sins, females not so much, so retreats or spas became the cover. Fiction, even about real societies, usually starts with the characters and her books often reflect both her own and her first husbands bouts of depression. She honored her parents will to enter society and waited to write, though its obvious in her characters that she had strong issues with her mother, and maybe resented her father for his choosing appearances over encouragement. Although she is wordy writer, most were in that day. She relates to the unsympathetic in manner that modern readers wouldn't bother with. It's usually the failed idea of love or happiness that she paints as more beautiful than the realization and potential loss of, or disillusionment of it, were it realized. It's an odd sort of perspective to have, where the idea is desired above the reality.... and it usually ends that way. And while that seems suffocating to us, it comes out of her mind, so its normal to speculate if she developed this attitude herself through a summation of her own relationships. It's a no risk and safe space view but it's also a view with false virtues. Depravation of something real for the conformity of nothing meaningful.
Wonderful! Amazing, mesmerizing book and the narrator, Elizabeth, really captures this hypnotic sense of a life re-lived...I could not stop listening when I had started! Not that I want to sound too over the top...but I really felt like I was floating through gilded halls of memory in this prose...so unflinching in how it views its subject and yet so beautiful.
I desperately want to finish this book (I will persevere!) but I dislike so many of these suffocating people (I realize that's a big part of the point), and I sympathize with Newland, in a sense, I do, but I hate him so much 😂
Never have I absolutely hated the ending of a book whose story upto then I loved so much. I thought I was going to reach into my phone and strangle him. 😣😣😣😣😣
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Im mad I have to continue reading this. My perception of Newland and Ellen has change completely and it makes me sad. Newland ain't shit and neither is Ellen.
Read comments. Phew, so far so good! If I'd read, where's the ending??? Then I'd know I'm not investing too much time to be met with spiteful people who hate books and only visit library's to cut out the endings of books!!😆😵😕 'Dirty old gits' comedy skits of Harry Enfield and chums!
"Gypsy" is a racial slur. This novel is a good reminder, that living to fulfill others' expectations isnt worth the pain and slow suffocation: happy pride! [Also, the leisure class shouldnt be a thing] NB: I would have enjoyed the book more, if we had been given the pov of the countess.
Here what i got
14:20 chapter 2
26:00 chapter 3
39:23 chapter 4
49:55 chapter 5
Chapter 6 - 1:07:48
Chapter 8 1:35:01
1:49:48 chapter 9
Chapter 13 3:09:39
Chapter 14 3:22:16
Chapter 15 3:35:15
Chapter 16 is at 3:55:12
Chapter 17 is at 4:13:31
Chapter 18 is at 4:32:02
Chapter 19 is at 4:53:58
Book 2 - 4:54:03
Chapter 20 is at 5:14:15
Chapter 21 is at 5:36:31
6:18:04 Chapter 23
6:37:03 chapter 24
7:04:20 Chapter 26
7:49:07 Chapter 29
Chapter 22 is at 6:01:17
8:02:17 Chapter 30
8:19:21 Chapter 31
8:40:51 Chapter 32
8:57:46 Chapter 33
Chapter 7 1:22:46
Thanks guys, really helpful!
You are all saints.
@@deejayveit Chapter 34: 9:25:50
14:08 ch2
25:50 ch3
39:17 ch4
50:00 ch5
1:07:45 ch6
1:22:53 ch7
1:35:18 ch8
1:50:09 ch9
2:13:11 ch10
2:31:28 ch11
2:47:18 ch12
3:09:40 ch13
3:22:14 ch14
3:35:25 ch15
3:55:23 ch16
4:13:29 ch17
4:32:02 ch18
4:54:08 ch19
5:14:24 ch20
A few more time stamps later in the book!
Chapter 28 - 7:36:52
Chapter 29 - 7:48:51
Chapter 30 - 8:02:17
Chapter 31 - 8:19:28
Chapter 32 - 8:40:53
Chapter 33 - 8:57:46
Chapter 34 - 9:25:57
I swear, best Librivox reader ever
She enunciates beautifully and shows a nuanced understanding of the hypocrisies of that era (which continue in their own way to this day).
Hi these are all the chapters ive listened to so far in order :) (im still reading with her so its not all of them yet)
14:18 - chapter 2
26:01 - chapter 3
39:21 - chapter 4
50:02 - chapter 5
1:07:46 - chapter 6
1:22:57 - chapter 7
1:35:20 - chapter 8
1:50:08 - chapter 9
are you still listening to it..?
@@its.twosdayim so sorry i forgot to mention that i started reading it on my own and did not end up listening to the whole video
@@Mmmmbeans oh, ok! thank you for responding tho :)
@@its.twosday yeah! No prob, i hope you have a great day and good luck :)
Chapter 16 is at 3:55:12
Chapter 17 is at 4:13:31
Chapter 18 is at 4:32:02
Chapter 19 is at 4:53:58
Chapter 20 is at 5:14:15
Chapter 21 is at 5:36:31
not sure if you guys cares but if you are stoned like me during the covid times you can watch all the latest movies and series on instaflixxer. I've been streaming with my girlfriend during the lockdown :)
@Marcos Rene definitely, I've been watching on InstaFlixxer for years myself :D
1:08:41"That terrifying product of the system, he belonged to and believed in: the girl, who knew nothing and expected everything"
Yay, the Edith Wharton classic recorded and accessible for my listening pleasure. Ms. Wharton's novels and short stories are particularly unique among the women authors of her era when you consider the fact that she was born into a rather wealthy family and traveled in the same "circles" of which were common topics in her offerings. I would be interested in a well researched biography about Edith Wharton. Thanks for sharing this post on UA-cam!
there's people like you and there's high schoolers trying to get an A on the exam they give after summer ends. this entire recording sounds like a jumble of boomer words i can't understand a HINT OF PROGRESSION. it's so fekking hard to follow man. WHY DON'T SCHOOLS MAKE US READ BOOKS WE WANT TO READ. WHY DO I HAVE TO READ THIS 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I'M NOT EVEN THAT OLD WHYDO THEY FORCE US TO LISTEN TO THIS
@@cloroxbleach6380 - I don't know if your response is directly to me in particular, but, you hit the nail on the head as I excelled in English classes when I was a teenager and I am also a retired English educator. Even so, I have questioned certain novels that are REQUIRED reading according to the public school's curriculum. Fortunately, my department head gave the English teachers some discretion to choose the young adult novels for our classes. I would also like to remind you that the English language is difficult. And, even it is your native language, just like learning ANY language, it takes hard work and diligence. I taught in the inner city, and whenever it was time for my unit on Shakespeare, EVERY ONE of my students could read (understand), "translate" and even write at least a Shakespearean style sentence. The only students who could not accomplish this simply didn't try, period.
@@lynnmetzner4578 it wasn't to you specifically. it feels reassuring that kids who failed didn't try. I'm really trying my best to understand this text.
@@cloroxbleach6380 the book is hard to follow at first, until you grab a book and read along at 1.75 speed
Chapter 16 is at 3:55:12
Chapter 17 is at 4:13:12
Chapter 18 is at 4:32:02
Chapter 19 is at 4:53:60
Chapter 20 is at 5:14:15
21: 5:37:00
22: 6:01:08
23: 6:18:28
24: 6:37:00
25: 6:47:42
26: 7:04:20
27: 7:24:20
Chp 28 7:37:00
Chp 29 7:49:04
Chp 30 8:02:25
Chp 31: 8:19:25
Chp 32: 8:41:00
Chp 33 8:57:30
Elizabeth Klett is superb! Thank you, Elizabeth!
Story is intense and poignant.
14:18 - chapter 2
26:01 - chapter 3
39:21 - chapter 4
50:02 - chapter 5
1:07:46 - chapter 6
1:22:57 - chapter 7
1:35:20 - chapter 8
1:50:08 - chapter 9
2:13:04 -chapter 10
-chapter 11
-chapter 12
-chapter 13
-chapter 14
-chapter 15
3:55:12 -Chapter 16
4:13:31 -Chapter 17
4:32:02 -Chapter 18
4:53:58 -Chapter 19
5:14:15 -Chapter 20
5:36:31 -Chapter 21
2:31:34 chapter 11
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Chp 28 7:37:00
Chp 29 7:49:04
Chp 30 8:02:25
Chp 31: 8:19:25
Chp 32: 8:41:00
Chp 33 8:57:30
Chapter 13 3:09:39
Chapter 14 3:22:16
Chapter 15 3:35:15
2:47:21 chapter 12
Very excellent, professional narration of a classic story.
1:07:30 end of chapter 5
4:13:20 chapter 17
5:36:36
6:48:30
7:00:02
9:25:46 chapter 34
Finally I just finished it 🥳
12:30 am
Thank you for this. I have been very lukewarm about Edith Wharton novels as a whole, but I really enjoy the audiobooks nonetheless.
pov: you're looking through comments to find the timestamp for what chapter you're on
Chapter 13 starts at 3:09:45
Chapter 14 starts at 3:22:08
Chapter 15 starts at 3:35:27
Good story, well read. Thanks for posting this a d thanks Librovox.
Remarkable book and an excellent reading. Thank you for sharing
SPOILERS!!!!: I realize that it is incredibly romantic in the terms of the day for him to just walk back to his hotel after the allusion to their meeting by the dock. I realize that the idea of their romance was perhaps more romantic then their actual romance. If I were he though, I would have met her. I realize that time may have separated them completely, and that she may not have even the slightest interest in him at that point. However, to dare against all failure to dare either humiliation or disappointment seemed entirely worth it to me. I realize that this is how people lived in old New York, but hadn't they both rejected that? I mean they accepted it as a reality and an important rule, but they seemed to never accept it upon themselves.
watched the movie many years ago...but just
reading the book now...ultimate question for the movie/book: why didn't newland archer go with his son and
meet ellen whom he had not seen for thirty years? i don't expect them to continue what they
had, but was he not curious how both of them would react if they saw each other
again? ...thanks!
Because its one thing to recognize such things and quite another to go against the conditioning of your life when certain teachings have been so deeply ingrained upon you that they are equally a part of who you are as much as any love might be. Its not as if Newland doesn't care for May...it's not an arranged marriage or anything as Wharton points out...its just he is in love with what May represents that's best about 'his world' and Ellen Olenska is foreign to him...which may be part of her charm...they don't even 'speak the same language' on a mental level...they just happen to be passionately in love with each other...which sometimes isn't enough when the pull of the society around you and the happiness of others depends upon you not being together. Such things happen in this day and age let alone then! People being together and marrying because its somehow 'expected' of them...whether they want to or not. Newland, Ellen and May are all conditioned by the world around them and rely upon it to such a degree that they can not go outside it...eventually they must succumb to it...either happily or not...that's the reason why Newland doesn't see Ellen at the end...so they can stay true to the memory of each other and their ideals of the world that just so happens to make their love impossible...and painful...that's the tragedy of the story and the genius in how Wharton conveys the 'age of innocence' of her time, which was never really 'innocent' in the true sense.
I can tell you why. It is the same reason I will not meet my lover from 38 years ago who just contacted me. I want to remember the sweet days of our youth, the passion and the love we shared them. I don't want to spoil it by seeing his eyes when he sees how I have aged.
The answer is in the first chapter: Newland Archer is, at his heart, a dilletant. He has and will never commit himself to anything. This temptation of real passion is something he dabbles with, no different from any other dalliance in his life. While he fancies himself full of rebellious thoughts, he is, like May, a creation of his social conditioning. He thinks that May is innocent, so much that he thinks that he can reveal the world to her, yet Newland himself is innocent, perhaps ignorant, of how little he can deviate from the path chosen for him.
Well not all people, merely the upper crust. But no group is perfectly what they seem, so any human flaw and affair you find amongst people, you'd find here. It was a matter of discretion and going around the rules, as the author herself was discovered to have affairs, which no one knew of until well after her death.
Much like the European ton, there was every sort of hypocrisy and game played. Appearances has a price, and in any society where they're kept, there's going to be those who break under them.
In this same society there were, as with aristocratic europe, the covering up of sins and abuses. The offspring often growing up emotionally stunted or detached to the point when all the material trappings were found empty, the relationship shallow, depression or addictions overtook them.
The cures for such were often drugs and sedatives, and while males often could openly indulge in vices and sins, females not so much, so retreats or spas became the cover.
Fiction, even about real societies, usually starts with the characters and her books often reflect both her own and her first husbands bouts of depression. She honored her parents will to enter society and waited to write, though its obvious in her characters that she had strong issues with her mother, and maybe resented her father for his choosing appearances over encouragement. Although she is wordy writer, most were in that day. She relates to the unsympathetic in manner that modern readers wouldn't bother with. It's usually the failed idea of love or happiness that she paints as more beautiful than the realization and potential loss of, or disillusionment of it, were it realized.
It's an odd sort of perspective to have, where the idea is desired above the reality.... and it usually ends that way. And while that seems suffocating to us, it comes out of her mind, so its normal to speculate if she developed this attitude herself through a summation of her own relationships. It's a no risk and safe space view but it's also a view with false virtues. Depravation of something real for the conformity of nothing meaningful.
Wonderful! Amazing, mesmerizing book and the narrator, Elizabeth, really captures this hypnotic sense of a life re-lived...I could not stop listening when I had started! Not that I want to sound too over the top...but I really felt like I was floating through gilded halls of memory in this prose...so unflinching in how it views its subject and yet so beautiful.
BelatedCommiseration she lived from 1797-1869. - so there were other women writers besides Austen and the Brontes. :)
Ahh gossip girl, i see your inspiration here
I desperately want to finish this book (I will persevere!) but I dislike so many of these suffocating people (I realize that's a big part of the point), and I sympathize with Newland, in a sense, I do, but I hate him so much 😂
Beautiful, thank you!
Well read. Excellent story.
God this book is so boring (I had to read it for class) and I couldn’t understand it thank you so much this audio was much help
bruh same lmao
I was looking for a comment that was actually about the book. Thanks! Now I know not to bother. Thanks!
How do you know the novel boring if you didn’t understand it? 😊
Never have I absolutely hated the ending of a book whose story upto then I loved so much. I thought I was going to reach into my phone and strangle him. 😣😣😣😣😣
Did anyone else hear the iPhone notification sound at 8:25:00 ?
yes! I was so confused lol
Don’t give spoilers 😂
yes ahhaha
chapter 7 is 1:22:39
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2:31:37 chapter 11
Chapter 10 - 2:13:00
Finally a Libravox recording that has a capable narrator
Matthew Everett she has two other audiobooks by Emily Eden (where the chapter announcements are cut out :)
Especially considering what those Librivox narrators are paid.
Elizabeth Klett is probably the best i've heard.
Thank you!
Good book, good movie ❤
39:06
Book 1, Chapter 4
1:07:01 “women ought to be free…” ch. 5
I’m heartbroken 😔
ignore, this is just my bookmark: 2:36:00
1:07:45 chap 6
So annoying that the narrator interrupts each chapter to state their own name and the title of the book
Harriet Oakley it's because it's originally a recording from Librivox
BM: 6:54:20
8:41:00
26:00 is 3
7:04:20 Chapter 26
Chp 31- 8:19:52
bookmark 8:19:40
Real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them 05:00:10
Chapter 21 is 5:36:31
1:25:27 page 37
8:02:18 Chapter 30
i think her name is elizabeth platt, i really enjoy listening to her read. shes very good imo
6:18:04 Chapter 23
Best Dean Koontz book yet. download mp3 version @ tinyurl . com \ oormwz6 . delete spaces.
Ch 28- 7:36:50
Chapter 6 - 1:07:48
1:49:48 chapter 9
50:00 CHAPTER 5
5:14:12 - chapter 20.
3:09:26 chapter 13
1:35:00 chapter 8
Ch 31- 8:19:30
Chapter 8 1:35:01
39:23 chapter four
Chapter 22: 6:01:18
Im mad I have to continue reading this. My perception of Newland and Ellen has change completely and it makes me sad. Newland ain't shit and neither is Ellen.
Yeah they suck. I love how far Newland is willing to go to throw his life away.
2:27:28
3:09:27
6:01:00
Read comments. Phew, so far so good! If I'd read, where's the ending??? Then I'd know I'm not investing too much time to be met with spiteful people who hate books and only visit library's to cut out the endings of books!!😆😵😕 'Dirty old gits' comedy skits of Harry Enfield and chums!
Her audio pierced my ear drums! Get a new lady please
26:00 chapter 3
14:20 Chapter 2
6:37:03 chapter 24
1:30:12
May (Mae?) is a Stepford Wife.
Harris Daniel Hall Richard Miller Sharon
11:24
...Show you my enemy..one more dangerous then the other..
2:13 ch 10
Megan Pellei 2:13:00
49:55 chapter 5
1:070:30
55:37
9:39 …
Okay this is probably a great book, idk.
But seriously, how tf did this end up in my recommendations?
UA-cam Algorithm really did it this time
Brown Frank Johnson Melissa Wilson Cynthia
2:00:00
31:16
2:13
"Gypsy" is a racial slur.
This novel is a good reminder, that living to fulfill others' expectations isnt worth the pain and slow suffocation: happy pride! [Also, the leisure class shouldnt be a thing]
NB: I would have enjoyed the book more, if we had been given the pov of the countess.
An aristocratic American writer.
927
54:00
39:15 chqpter 4
5:52
327
Narrator speaks too fast!
27:00
3:09:25 - chapter 13
7:49:07 Chapter 29
5:13:00
Book 2 - 4:54:03
35:02
25:41