Small Souls by Louis Couperus audiobook.

Genre: drama

In late-19th-century The Hague, the dignified Van Lowe household lives by routine, reputation, and the weekly Sunday gathering presided over by the formidable Mrs. van Lowe. Into this carefully maintained world returns her daughter Constance, absent for years after a scandal that polite society has never truly forgiven: a divorce, a forbidden love, and a second marriage to the diplomat Henri van der Welcke that cost them both status and security. Now Constance and Henri come home with their sensitive son, Adriaan (Addie), hoping time has softened old judgments. Instead, they step into a web of half-welcomes, sharp smiles, and whispered stories that travel faster than any official invitation. As relatives close ranks, alliances shift and petty cruelties surface, Constance must decide what reconciliation really means - and what it costs to demand it. Meanwhile Addie, hearing fragments of gossip he cannot understand, feels the chill of inherited shame and begins to question who his parents are in the eyes of others. With psychological insight and biting social observation, Couperus exposes the smallness of a world that calls itself respectable.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:02:50) Chapter 01

(00:16:53) Chapter 02

(00:47:57) Chapter 03

(00:59:28) Chapter 04

(01:27:47) Chapter 05

(01:54:26) Chapter 06

(02:03:22) Chapter 07

(02:19:24) Chapter 08

(02:27:49) Chapter 09

(02:34:12) Chapter 10

(02:57:04) Chapter 11

(03:13:50) Chapter 12

(03:21:45) Chapter 13

(03:31:46) Chapter 14

(03:51:03) Chapter 15

(04:24:21) Chapter 16

(04:41:14) Chapter 17

(04:55:34) Chapter 18

(05:07:08) Chapter 19

(05:24:35) Chapter 20

(05:41:10) Chapter 21

(06:01:52) Chapter 22

(06:20:28) Chapter 23

(06:38:07) Chapter 24

(07:07:35) Chapter 25

(07:20:50) Chapter 26

(07:33:59) Chapter 27

(07:55:34) Chapter 28

(08:04:01) Chapter 29

(08:33:18) Chapter 30

(08:43:18) Chapter 31

(08:55:52) Chapter 32

(09:06:02) Chapter 33

(09:21:57) Chapter 34

(09:37:52) Chapter 35

(09:45:42) Chapter 36

(10:04:00) Chapter 37

(10:27:23) Chapter 38

(10:41:40) Chapter 39

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