Enjoy The New York Idea from Langdon Mitchell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/280930 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New York Idea Author: Langdon Mitchell Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 55 minutes Release date: December 6, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.5 of Total 2 Genres: Theatre & Radio Publisher's Summary: I find it very hard to classify "The New York Idea" under any of the established rubrics. It is rather too extravagant to rank as a comedy; it is much too serious in its purport, too searching in its character-delineation and too thoughtful in its wit, to be treated as a mere farce. Its title—not, perhaps, a very happy one—is explained in this saying of one of the characters: "Marry for whim and leave the rest to the divorce court—that's the New York idea of marriage." Like all the plays, from Sardou's "Divorçons" onward, which deal with a too facile system of divorce, this one shows a discontented woman, who has broken up her home for a caprice, suffering agonies of jealousy when her ex-husband proposes to make use of the freedom she has given him, and returning to him at last with the admission that their divorce was at least "premature." In this central conception there is nothing particularly original. It is the wealth of humourous invention displayed in the details both of character and situation that renders the play remarkable. (Summary from Project Gutenberg)