The Lifted Veil by George Eliot audiobook.

Genre: horror

In Victorian England, sensitive and solitary Latimer drifts through life with a mind he does not fully control. After a strange illness in his youth, he becomes cursed - or gifted - with sudden flashes of the future and an unnerving ability to hear the secret thoughts of those around him. What first seems like a way to understand people more deeply quickly turns into a relentless assault of petty motives, hidden cruelties, and banal desires, leaving Latimer increasingly detached from ordinary human warmth. When he meets the poised and enigmatic Bertha, he hopes love might anchor him to the living world and quiet the din inside his head. Instead, his visions and impressions intensify, tightening into a private dread that he cannot name and cannot escape. As marriage, family expectations, and medical ambition intersect with Latimer's frightening perceptions, George Eliot crafts a chilling, intimate study of isolation and the danger of seeing too much. The Lifted Veil is a darkly psychological tale about knowledge without comfort, intimacy without trust, and the thin barrier between rational life and the uncanny.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:01) Chapter 02

(01:02:32) Chapter 03

(01:33:42) Chapter 04

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