

The Lifted Veil
Author: George Eliot
Narrator: Clive Chafer
Unabridged: 1 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/16/2016
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Occult & Supernatural, Psychological
Author: George Eliot
Narrator: Clive Chafer
Unabridged: 1 hr 53 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 02/16/2016
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Occult & Supernatural, Psychological
Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) (1819-80) was a philosopher, journalist and translator before she became a novelist, her first stories being published in 1856. She led an unconventional life, co-editing the liberal journal Westminster Review for three years and living with the married man and philosopher George Henry Lewes. Her novels are among the greatest of the nineteenth century
Clive Chafer is a professional actor, director, producer, and theater instructor. Originally from England and educated at Leeds and Exeter universities, he has performed and directed at many theaters in the San Francisco area, where he makes his home, and elsewhere in the US. In 1993 he founded TheatreFIRST, Oakland’s professional theater company, where he served as artistic director until 2008.
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Flowing first-person old-timey "overwritten" prose, an unhinged Gothic psychohorror starring the clairvoyant Romantic poet aristocratic narrator haunted by premonitions of Prague and marriage to his brother's beguiling bride Bertha, characterized as a sort of devious and delusive (<-- a word I've le......more
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“Enormously intelligent.” New York Times
“[An] indisputably great work.” New York Observer
“George Eliot’s Gothic story…continues her preoccupation with human communication and sympathy through the figure of the telepathic narrator. Latimer, one of her least likeable characters, suffers tremendously under his heightened awareness of others’ petty and selfish thoughts. Latimer chooses to tell the story of his abilities as a tale of disability, a kind of pathography about his gift…The vehemence of his disgust for human frailties suggests that Latimer’s pain derives at least in part from his failure of empathy for others…Thus, his uncanny hearing unmasks a kind of sympathetic deafness to others, and his progressive heart disease indexes the shriveling of his capacity for human love and friendship.” Literature Arts Medicine Database