Lifted Masks by Susan Glaspell ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

Lifted Masks by Susan Glaspell audiobook.

Genre: drama

First published in 1912, Lifted Masks is Susan Glaspell's keen-edged collection of 13 short stories about the faces people present to the world and what happens when those performances crack. In Paris, a young American woman named Virginia is pulled into an awkward, unexpectedly tender afternoon helping a loud, well-meaning countryman buy gifts for the wife he cannot quite reach anymore. Back in the United States, Glaspell moves through small towns, workplaces, and political backrooms, introducing men and women trapped between reputation and conscience: an idealistic immigrant father watching his son's idea of America harden into ambition, a weary laborer fighting to stay sober long enough to finish a task that feels like his last chance, and citizens who discover how quickly public virtue can be traded for power. With humor, compassion, and a reporter's eye for detail, Glaspell probes class, gender, patriotism, and moral compromise, asking what we owe to our dreams, to one another, and to the selves we keep hidden. Each story offers its own reckoning, and together they form a portrait of a society learning, uncomfortably, what it has been pretending not to see.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:52) Chapter 02

(00:52:03) Chapter 03

(01:12:46) Chapter 04

(01:31:44) Chapter 05

(02:13:26) Chapter 06

(02:40:20) Chapter 07

(03:00:58) Chapter 08

(03:17:59) Chapter 09

(03:50:06) Chapter 10

(04:12:06) Chapter 11

(04:45:10) Chapter 12

(05:16:20) Chapter 13

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