The Twilight of the Souls by Louis Couperus ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

The Twilight of the Souls by Louis Couperus audiobook.

Genre: drama

In fin-de-siecle The Hague, the once-formidable Van Lowe clan is coming apart at the seams. The Twilight of the Souls, the third novel in Louis Couperus' four-book cycle The Books of the Small Souls, returns to a family that has drifted from its old rituals of Sunday gatherings and shared certainties. Constance Van der Welcke tries to build a quieter, steadier life with her husband Henri, yet the family atmosphere remains charged with unspoken resentments, fading status, and spiritual fatigue. The focus shifts to Constance's brothers: Gerrit, outwardly hearty and practical but privately weighed down by dread and responsibility, and the fragile, brilliant Ernst, whose worsening mental crisis threatens to expose everything the family has tried to keep respectable and controlled. Meanwhile, younger relatives test the limits of duty and desire, fleeing into a more dazzling European life even as scandal and disappointment follow close behind. With psychological precision and lush, melancholy detail, Couperus traces how love, pride, and obligation can tighten into a trap, and how a family's inherited patterns can feel like destiny when the light begins to fail.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:01:13) Chapter 01

(00:58:18) Chapter 02

(01:14:31) Chapter 03

(01:32:46) Chapter 04

(02:09:14) Chapter 05

(02:32:47) Chapter 06

(02:48:02) Chapter 07

(03:01:06) Chapter 08

(03:15:28) Chapter 09

(03:58:27) Chapter 10

(04:20:04) Chapter 11

(04:39:34) Chapter 12

(04:53:42) Chapter 13

(05:06:06) Chapter 14

(05:17:05) Chapter 15

(05:41:23) Chapter 16

(05:51:04) Chapter 17

(06:08:47) Chapter 18

(06:26:36) Chapter 19

(06:53:04) Chapter 20

(07:07:35) Chapter 21

(07:41:33) Chapter 22

(07:53:01) Chapter 23

(08:04:29) Chapter 24

(08:12:54) Chapter 25

(08:24:07) Chapter 26

(08:45:44) Chapter 27

(08:55:10) Chapter 28

(09:05:49) Chapter 29

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