Adeline Mowbray by Amelia Opie ~ Full Audiobook [tragedy]

Adeline Mowbray by Amelia Opie audiobook.

Genre: tragedy

In Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray, a brilliant, warm-hearted young woman comes of age under the influence of bold new ideas about reason, independence, and marriage. Raised by a mother who prizes enlightened principles over convention, Adeline is encouraged to question the social rules that govern love and respectability. When she encounters the charismatic writer and thinker Glenmurray, Adeline is drawn into a relationship that seems to promise moral sincerity without the constraints of law or ceremony. But the world beyond the salon is less forgiving than the world of theory. As Adeline tries to live honestly according to her beliefs, she faces gossip, legal vulnerability, and the quiet cruelty of polite society - pressures that test her pride, her compassion, and her sense of self. Moving between intimate domestic scenes and public scrutiny, the novel follows Adeline's shifting friendships, painful reckonings, and hard-won insight into the gap between ideals and lived experience. At once a critique of hypocrisy and a portrait of a woman struggling to define her own life, Opie's story asks what it costs to defy custom, and who pays the price when principle collides with prejudice.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:11:30) Chapter 02

(00:27:16) Chapter 03

(00:44:32) Chapter 04

(00:55:13) Chapter 05

(01:12:13) Chapter 06

(01:32:10) Chapter 07

(01:44:12) Chapter 08

(02:06:57) Chapter 09

(02:31:37) Chapter 10

(02:40:15) Chapter 11

(02:51:17) Chapter 12

(03:00:52) Chapter 13

(03:19:48) Chapter 14

(03:42:59) Chapter 15

(04:06:49) Chapter 16

(04:28:37) Chapter 17

(05:17:42) Chapter 18

(05:58:05) Chapter 19

(06:42:05) Chapter 20

(07:16:38) Chapter 21

(08:03:58) Chapter 22

(08:28:31) Chapter 23

(08:41:43) Chapter 24

(08:54:32) Chapter 25

(09:10:16) Chapter 26

(09:24:41) Chapter 27

(09:32:59) Chapter 28

(09:43:56) Chapter 29

(10:12:26) Chapter 30

(10:24:15) Chapter 31

(10:33:00) Chapter 32

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