Annette and Sylvie: Being Volume One of The Soul Enchanted

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Annette and Sylvie: Being Volume One of The Soul Enchanted

by Romain Rolland

EN·~5 hours·6 chapters

Chapters

6 total

ANNETTE AND SYLVIE - Being Volume One of - The Soul Enchanted - By - ROMAIN ROLLAND - Translated from the French by - BEN RAY REDMAN - NEW YORK - HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY - 1925

0:23

FOREWORD

2:17

ANNETTE AND SYLVIE

0:01

PART ONE

2:23:58

ANNETTE AND SYLVIE

0:01

PART TWO

2:57:34

Description

The opening volume of this lyrical series invites listeners into the intimate world of a young woman whose thoughts drift like sunlight on water. Through a narrator who steps back to let her voice unfold, the story feels like a shared meditation on love, yearning, and the restless search for meaning. It is both a portrait of a single life and the first step of a larger, unfolding journey.

We meet Annette in a quiet room, the evening sun painting the column of her neck in gold and red. She wanders into a secluded forest pool, where the cool water and tangled vines stir a mixture of shame, exhilaration, and a yearning for release. Emerging into the dimming light, she returns to the warmth of a crackling fire, the night birds singing outside as she contemplates the lingering echo of that fleeting, luminous trance.

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Language

en

Duration

~5 hours (311K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Henry Holt and Company, 1925.

Credits

Laura Natal Rodrigues

Release date

Sep 28, 2021

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland

1866–1944

A Nobel Prize-winning French writer, he used novels, plays, and essays to argue for courage, compassion, and peace in a violent age. He is best known for the vast novel cycle Jean-Christophe and for a lifelong belief that art and conscience belong together.

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