The Well of Loneliness Audiobook by Radclyffe Hall

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/43/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Well of Loneliness Author: Radclyffe Hall Narrator: Cecilia Fage Format: Unabridged Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins Language: English Release date: 12-16-09 Publisher: Audible Studios Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 120 votes Genres: Classics, British Literature Publisher's Summary: Stephen Gordon (named by a father desperate for a son) is not like other girls: she hunts, she fences, she reads books, wears trousers, and longs to cut her hair. As she grows up amidst the stifling grandeur of Morton Hall, the locals begin to draw away from her, aware of some indefinable thing that sets her apart. And when Stephen Gordon reaches maturity, she falls passionately in love - with another woman. ©1928 Radclyffe Hall; (P)2009 Audible Ltd Editorial Reviews: Stephen Gordon has led quite a life and yet also has hardly any life at all. Born into the very best a loving but rather average family can provide, she is fraught with a sense of her innate differences from the other girls. This classic late Victorian novel charts the developmental course of a sexual invert, from her childish crush on the housemaid, to her dangerous infatuation with the neighbors wife, to her efforts at settling down into whatever small happiness society would begrudgingly permit. Narrating the deeply delicate sensibilities of Stephens painful coming of age is Audible newcomer Cecilia Fage, a London actress and back-up vocalist who lends all her many talents to this very weighty and pioneering piece of literature. Stephens own background permits Fage the use of her lovely and strong natural voice for the majority of the text, but when the main character ventures into literary Paris after being booted from the familys countryside home by an unforgiving mother, Fages command of the French language and accent is entirely persuasive. There are also Irish ladies and lower-class British servants with quite convincing dialogue. Fages only weakness is the Southern belle next door, a loathsome and self-pitying creature who tortures the helplessly devoted Stephen but missteps in voice work here are much more forgivable than the evil deeds of the character they represent. As Radclyffe Halls most important work, and indeed one of the most important early calls for homosexual equality in general, The Well of Loneliness is here preserved successfully thanks to the formidable talents of Cecilia Fage. Whether you are looking to delve into this controversial book for the first time, or rediscover why so many people consider this heart-wrenching book a touchstone, the audiobook really loses nothing in the translation from page to Fage.