The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan ~ Full Audiobook [romance]

The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan audiobook.

Genre: romance

“The Imperialist,” a novel by Sara Jeannette Duncan, published in 1904, is a portrait of life in small-town Ontario at the beginning of the 20th century.

At that time, English Canada was torn between affectionate loyalty for the “mother country” (Britain), and, on the other side, hard-headed respect for the demands of life in the shadow of the dynamic American economy. (In a by-election, one party pushes for establishing a preferred trading relationship between Canada and Britain: this is the “imperialist” position referred to by the book’s title.)

Main characters find themselves in problematic love stories that unfold against the backdrop of a society that is working out its national identity. These national issues would continue to vex Canada for decades to come. The author is ambivalent about the larger debates, but offers richly specific, subtle, and entertaining observations of manners and morals.

In the decades since publication, “The Imperialist” has been increasingly appreciated as a landmark in Canadian fiction. Critic and scholar Peter Allen has written: “Duncan is an eloquent and important witness to the ambiguity of [Canada’s] developing national identity in the years before World War I.”

NOTE: In this novel, a brief depiction of Native Canadians uses what we today recognize as offensive stereotypes.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:29:26) Chapter 02

(00:49:44) Chapter 03

(01:14:20) Chapter 04

(01:35:27) Chapter 05

(01:56:51) Chapter 06

(02:18:30) Chapter 07

(02:41:57) Chapter 08

(03:01:23) Chapter 09

(03:21:25) Chapter 10

(03:41:17) Chapter 11

(03:57:49) Chapter 12

(04:22:49) Chapter 13

(04:35:39) Chapter 14

(04:52:20) Chapter 15

(05:08:09) Chapter 16

(05:29:34) Chapter 17

(05:58:29) Chapter 18

(06:18:55) Chapter 19

(06:34:23) Chapter 20

(06:55:34) Chapter 21

(07:18:49) Chapter 22

(07:42:45) Chapter 23

(08:03:24) Chapter 24

(08:24:07) Chapter 25

(08:54:51) Chapter 26

(09:18:56) Chapter 27

(09:42:25) Chapter 28

(10:04:29) Chapter 29

(10:45:08) Chapter 30

(11:04:38) Chapter 31

(11:19:08) Chapter 32

(11:47:54) Chapter 33

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