The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton ~ Full Audiobook [history]

The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton audiobook.

Genre: history

Set in late 18th-century Italy on the eve of the French Revolution, Edith Wharton's debut novel follows Odo Valsecca, a sensitive boy raised among peasants who learns that his blood ties him to a ruling house. When a sudden turn of fortune draws him into aristocratic life and positions him to inherit the dukedom of Pianura, Odo arrives with a reformer's hopes shaped by Enlightenment ideas and by the hardships he has witnessed at the bottom of the social order. Court etiquette, church authority, and entrenched privilege, however, prove as formidable as any enemy, and Odo discovers that power is a maze of compromises, allies, and hidden costs. At the center of his private life is Fulvia Vivaldi, a brilliant and daring liberal whose convictions both inspire and endanger him, forcing Odo to weigh love and loyalty against prudence and duty. As political factions harden and unrest spreads, Odo must decide what kind of ruler he will be, and what he is willing to sacrifice to make change real.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:00:45) Chapter 01

(00:18:28) Chapter 02

(00:36:27) Chapter 03

(00:50:24) Chapter 04

(01:11:14) Chapter 05

(01:28:18) Chapter 06

(01:52:57) Chapter 07

(02:11:38) Chapter 08

(02:39:56) Chapter 09

(02:57:05) Chapter 10

(03:14:56) Chapter 11

(03:27:21) Chapter 12

(03:45:48) Chapter 13

(04:15:33) Chapter 14

(04:35:44) Chapter 15

(04:55:52) Chapter 16

(05:17:55) Chapter 17

(05:24:29) Chapter 18

(05:40:27) Chapter 19

(06:12:04) Chapter 20

(06:38:08) Chapter 21

(07:06:30) Chapter 22

(07:29:32) Chapter 23

(07:52:17) Chapter 24

(08:25:25) Chapter 25

(09:06:53) Chapter 26

(09:50:30) Chapter 27

(10:11:54) Chapter 28

(11:00:39) Chapter 29

(11:23:27) Chapter 30

(11:46:27) Chapter 31

(12:18:58) Chapter 32

(12:40:43) Chapter 33

(13:08:34) Chapter 34

(13:31:53) Chapter 35

(13:55:33) Chapter 36

(14:04:26) Chapter 37

(14:26:30) Chapter 38

(14:47:09) Chapter 39

(15:03:46) Chapter 40

(15:30:07) Chapter 41

(15:53:50) Chapter 42

(16:15:49) Chapter 43

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