Aliaj Tempoj

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Aliaj Tempoj

by Edith Wharton

EO·~1 hours·1 chapter

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A retired woman finds herself alone on a ship bound for New York, the endless sea amplifying the weight of her own memories. She has spent years learning to live with a past that feels both familiar and oppressive, treating it like a fragile relative she must protect. As the vessel cuts through the waves, she watches strangers’ conversations echo the stories she knows so well, and the distant shore seems to promise a chance to confront what she has long hidden. The opening of her journey is marked by a quiet, introspective mood that draws listeners into her inner world.

When news arrives that her daughter’s marriage has dissolved and a new relationship is forming, the woman’s carefully built equilibrium is shaken. She grapples with the realization that the past she has mastered is now resurfacing in unexpected ways, forcing her to reassess her role as mother and as a keeper of family history. The narrative weaves her personal reflections with the broader atmosphere of an uncertain future, inviting listeners to explore how memory, identity, and the sea of change intersect in a life poised on the brink of transformation.

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Language

eo

Duration

~1 hours (65K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Robert L. Read, William Patterson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2006-07-16

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

1862–1937

Raised inside New York’s elite world, she turned its rules, ambitions, and quiet cruelties into some of the sharpest fiction of her era. Her novels blend social detail with real emotional force, from glittering drawing rooms to the stark loneliness of rural New England.

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