The Heel of Achilles
E. M. Delafield
Read by CJ Plogue
After a difficult childhood, Lydia Raymond, a lower middle class girl, decides to explore her own individuality and climbs the social ladder. Yet, like everything in life, this has a price. This book tells about her childhood, her quest to find herself, and her relationship with her daughter, Jane. This is a fairytale turned upside down. - Summary by Stav Nisser. (13 hr 21 min)
Chapters
chapter 01 | 24:45 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 02 | 23:54 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 03 | 21:00 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 04 | 27:31 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 05 | 28:35 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 06 | 29:17 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 07 | 29:58 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 08 | 27:08 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 09 | 24:52 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 10 | 29:47 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 11 | 27:23 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 12 | 26:13 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 13 | 25:34 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 14 | 27:20 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 15 | 27:24 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 16 | 26:59 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 17 | 27:09 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 18 | 27:58 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 19 | 26:42 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 20 | 29:33 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 21 | 27:36 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 22 | 23:14 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 23 | 28:47 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 24 | 28:06 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 25 | 29:54 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 26 | 30:21 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 27 | 27:41 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 28 | 28:45 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 29 | 17:20 | Read by CJ Plogue |
chapter 30 | 20:33 | Read by CJ Plogue |
Reviews
good reader
A LibriVox Listener
This is an excellently read book. I’m not a fan of Delafield- two books so far, I’ll give it one more try, in which the heroine has all the opportunity to redemption at the end and doesn’t quit get there. I’m not sure what the author’s point is, therefore, with these tales. What are we supposed to learn from them? This is not a book review site, I guess, so that’s that. Excellent reader: perfect tone for our heroine’s tale.
Exquisitely Depressing
Kristin P.
I’m giving this book 4 stars, even though the reading was wonderful. In short, being unfamiliar with Delafield’s works, I wasn’t prepared for such a dismal portrait of such an unsympathetic heroine with such an unsatisfying ending. It was an evocative portrait though, and one to ruminate on for a long time.