Human Affairs by Vincent OSullivan audiobook.

Genre: drama

First published in 1907, Human Affairs is a sharp, atmospheric collection of seven long stories by fin-de-siecle writer Vincent O'Sullivan, each one peeling back the polite surface of society to expose the hungers, vanities, and quiet despairs underneath. In 'The Great Moment,' a once-comfortable New York family is jolted into a harsher life when Mr. Becker dies and his widow and daughters, including Maud, are forced to measure what money and status were really worth. Elsewhere, an inheritance and its invisible strings tighten into a moral trap ('The Entail'); an ominous residence suggests that the past never truly vacates a room ('Verschoyle's House'); and a seemingly factual sketch of an ordinary life turns sly, unsettling, and strangely intimate ('Notices of the Life of Mrs. Fladd'). From after-dinner talk to the glitter of a revue, O'Sullivan follows people at the instant they bargain with themselves - for security, for admiration, for love, or simply for the relief of not thinking too hard. Elegant, ironic, and faintly uncanny, Human Affairs is a portrait gallery of choices that look small until they are not.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:33:45) Chapter 02

(00:51:33) Chapter 03

(01:51:41) Chapter 04

(02:34:34) Chapter 05

(03:10:36) Chapter 06

(04:05:54) Chapter 07

(04:33:02) Chapter 08

(05:03:19) Chapter 09

(05:32:57) Chapter 10

(06:26:42) Chapter 11

(06:38:06) Chapter 12

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