The Graduate, Charles Webb
The Graduate, Charles Webb
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The Graduate

Author: Charles Webb

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 6 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/21/2008

Synopsis

The basis for the acclaimed 1967 film, this novel about a naive college graduate adrift in the shifting social and sexual mores of the 1960s captures with hilarity and insight the alienation of youth and the disillusionment of an era. When Benjamin Braddock graduates from college and moves back to his parents' house, everyone wants to know what he's going to do with his life. Embittered by the emptiness of his education and indifferent to his grim prospects, Benjamin falls haplessly into an affair with Mrs. Robinson, the relentlessly seductive wife of his father's business partner. It's only when her lovely daughter Elaine comes home to visit that Benjamin, now smitten, thinks he might have found some kind of direction in his life. But Mrs. Robinson is having none of it. A wondrously fierce and absurd battle of wills ensues, with love and idealism triumphing over the forces of corruption and conformity.

About Charles Webb

Charles Webb (1939–2020) was the author of nine novels, including his best-known novel The Graduate, which was made into a major motion picture in 1963 and which became an icon of the social tensions of the 1960s. He studied history and literature and graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts. He and his wife, an artist, lived a non-materialistic life style, home-schooled their two children, and were activists their entire lives in support of gay rights and other social issues.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Timothy on 2009-08-05 09:33:58

I never read the book or saw the movie and I CANT belive they made a movie of this. This book was sooo tedious, I hated the main character and all of the character's dialog is terrible. Just how many times can an author use the response what? and still call it dialog???

Goodreads review by Georgia on June 03, 2023

When Mel Brooks was asked what he considered his greatest achievement, he said: "Marrying Anne Bancroft." That's love. Even after her death, she draws his awe. Nothing in the novel drew mine. Mrs Robinson only comes alive in the film. Had the novel been written from her viewpoint, it could have been w......more

Goodreads review by Barry on October 18, 2015

The 60s were great. I think. I wouldn’t know, I was born in 1996. A world where a middle-aged woman seduces a boy who is barely out of his teens and it becomes one of the most enjoyable and humourous books of the decade. I adored The Graduate. There’s something in the prose, something in the plot, s......more

Goodreads review by TK421 on March 12, 2013

In 1963 a young man by the name of Charles Webb published a book called THE GRADUATE, a story that was supposedly based on a true story. It was a sensation. Four years later, it became a hit movie starring Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, and Katherine Ross. Okay, we all know these facts. Let's leave......more

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