Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus audiobook.

Genre: drama

Set a decade after the earlier novels in Louis Couperus' Small Souls cycle, Dr. Adriaan returns to the dwindling Van Lowe clan as they try to build a livable future inside a dark, overfull country house at Driebergen. Constance van der Welcke and her husband Henri preside over a household crowded with dependents and memories: the aging Mamma van Lowe, restless younger relatives, and Mathilde, whose remarriage has brought a new center of gravity into the family. Everyone awaits the arrival of Mathilde's husband Addie, now Dr. Adriaan - a handsome, fashionable physician with a demanding practice and an unnerving talent for probing the mind as well as the body. As Adriaan moves between sickrooms and drawing rooms, he becomes confidant, healer, and catalyst, drawing out the quiet despairs and unspoken longings that good breeding insists be hidden. The novel follows marriages under strain, children on the cusp of adulthood, and a young womans fragile nerves, all against the wintery stillness of a society edging into a new century. With psychological intensity and social precision, Couperus asks what it costs to be respectable, and what it means to be well - in love, in family, and in soul.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:00:49) Chapter 2

(01:01:07) Chapter 3

(01:18:06) Chapter 4

(01:32:17) Chapter 5

(01:43:06) Chapter 6

(02:05:26) Chapter 7

(02:13:54) Chapter 8

(02:26:40) Chapter 9

(02:37:26) Chapter 10

(03:11:13) Chapter 11

(03:38:00) Chapter 12

(03:53:11) Chapter 13

(04:22:20) Chapter 14

(04:45:17) Chapter 15

(05:01:50) Chapter 16

(05:12:17) Chapter 17

(05:29:14) Chapter 18

(05:44:40) Chapter 19

(06:04:10) Chapter 20

(06:20:40) Chapter 21

(06:28:18) Chapter 22

(06:43:27) Chapter 23

(06:57:34) Chapter 24

(07:02:39) Chapter 25

(07:35:02) Chapter 26

(07:56:36) Chapter 27

(08:08:31) Chapter 28

(08:18:29) Chapter 29

(08:29:08) Chapter 30

(08:42:28) Chapter 31

(09:09:25) Chapter 32

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