Ardath
Chapter 1 of 40 The Monastery
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21:15
- Running time
- 21 h 53 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Jim Locke, Lisa Statler
Chapters
About this recording
Victorian-era writer Marie Corelli’s epic work Ardath, The Story of a Dead Self, is filled with supernatural and gothic themes. We meet Theos Alwyn, an atheist poet who is lost and disconsolate with life. He begins his journey by seeking out a monastery in the Caucasus mountains; his spiritual quest then takes him to the mythical field of Ardath, which becomes a door into a dream of another version of his self that transcends space and time. - Summary by Lisa Statler