The Secret City by Hugh Walpole ~ Full Audiobook [history]

The Secret City by Hugh Walpole audiobook.

Genre: history

In The Secret City, Hugh Walpole drops an idealistic young Englishman into Petrograd on the eve of revolution and lets the city itself become the story's most dangerous character. Henry Bohun arrives in Russia in 1916 with romantic expectations and a hunger to belong, but he is quickly confronted by shortages, rumors, surveillance, and the uneasy sense that every conversation carries a hidden meaning. Taking lodgings with the Petrovitch household, Bohun is drawn into the intimate tensions of Nicolas and Vera Petrovitch and Vera's younger sister, Nina, whose restlessness mirrors a society straining against its old restraints. Through Bohun's friendship with John Durward and his growing entanglement with the family's shifting loyalties, Walpole traces how private desires collide with public upheaval. As winter closes in and the streets harden into suspicion and fear, the arrival of the unsettling uncle Semyonov signals that trouble is no longer distant news but something that can walk through the front door. Both a vivid portrait of Petrograd in crisis and a psychological study of belonging, faith, and self-deception, the novel asks what each person is really worshipping in the 'secret city' of the heart.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:04:18) Chapter 02

(00:10:55) Chapter 03

(00:19:30) Chapter 04

(00:26:50) Chapter 05

(00:34:13) Chapter 06

(00:45:08) Chapter 07

(01:04:51) Chapter 08

(01:25:21) Chapter 09

(01:54:32) Chapter 10

(02:11:15) Chapter 11

(02:19:00) Chapter 12

(02:40:37) Chapter 13

(02:49:22) Chapter 14

(03:03:38) Chapter 15

(03:15:05) Chapter 16

(03:32:39) Chapter 17

(03:41:59) Chapter 18

(04:03:31) Chapter 19

(04:15:56) Chapter 20

(04:27:13) Chapter 21

(04:43:50) Chapter 22

(04:59:16) Chapter 23

(05:12:29) Chapter 24

(05:27:47) Chapter 25

(05:37:10) Chapter 26

(05:50:52) Chapter 27

(06:06:40) Chapter 28

(06:27:32) Chapter 29

(06:47:34) Chapter 30

(07:09:12) Chapter 31

(07:32:15) Chapter 32

(07:36:05) Chapter 33

(08:14:56) Chapter 34

(08:47:40) Chapter 35

(09:12:25) Chapter 36

(09:35:28) Chapter 37

(09:40:38) Chapter 38

(09:46:09) Chapter 39

(09:58:28) Chapter 40

(10:02:23) Chapter 41

(10:29:20) Chapter 42

(10:50:08) Chapter 43

(11:04:54) Chapter 44

(11:15:38) Chapter 45

(11:24:47) Chapter 46

(11:49:19) Chapter 47

(11:59:08) Chapter 48

(12:13:05) Chapter 49

(12:30:08) Chapter 50

(12:43:07) Chapter 51

(13:12:51) Chapter 52

(13:28:03) Chapter 53

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