The Ivory Tower by Henry James audiobook.

Genre: drama

An unfinished manuscript written in ponderous, convoluted language making possible subterfuge and frankness in wealthy American society of James' purview, in which a character as unsuspecting as the reader gets embroiled more or less willingly in power shifts over a massive inheritance. The first part of the book is an example of James' late adoption of narrator as seemingly blinkered as his characters to the unseen, leaving the 'i's' deliberately undotted, as he says; and the second part is a great study in the stages of execution of a novel, notably sketching out the flow and identifying 'joints' in the drama, and resolving potential sticking points. James' style lends itself to filmic imagination.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:03:01) Chapter 01

(00:27:31) Chapter 02

(01:00:23) Chapter 03

(01:21:10) Chapter 04

(01:44:26) Chapter 05

(02:24:22) Chapter 06

(02:57:20) Chapter 07

(03:17:27) Chapter 08

(03:41:19) Chapter 09

(03:58:08) Chapter 10

(04:14:37) Chapter 11

(04:31:21) Chapter 12

(05:01:16) Chapter 13

(05:23:05) Chapter 14

(05:38:08) Chapter 15

(06:01:10) Chapter 16

(06:21:05) Chapter 17

(06:48:56) Chapter 18

(07:18:35) Chapter 19

(07:37:35) Chapter 20

(07:59:21) Chapter 21

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