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AudioThe Fallen Leaves
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LibriVox recording of The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins. Read in English by SteveMiller; Christopher Simonsen; acousticwave; jenno; Linda Andrus; Paul Thomas; Elsie Selwyn; Rita Boutros; ToddHW; racquelolea Amelius Goldenheart, the hero of this story, is expelled from a Utopian community in New England and finds himself in London. His story is dominated by a number of women, all of them in some way a "fallen leaf", whom he tries to rescue. One of them is the reason he was expelled from the community in which he lived, another the wife of his only acquaintance, a young prostitute, and his fiancé. Trying to help where he can and at the same time trying to navigate this unfamiliar English society is testing both Amelius as well as the women he meets. - Summary by Carolin For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook 01-24 (215MB) M4B Audiobook 25-47 (171MB)
Directors & creators
Wilkie Collins
Subjects
librivox; audiobooks;fiction; novel; society; england; Collins; Moral; utopia; 1879; 2019
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