
audiobook
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
FOREWORD
ANNETTE AND SYLVIE
PART ONE
ANNETTE AND SYLVIE
PART TWO
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.
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
2021-09-28
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1866–1944
A Nobel Prize–winning French writer, he used fiction, biography, and essays to explore music, conscience, and the struggle to stay humane in troubled times. Best known for the vast novel cycle Jean-Christophe, he also became one of Europe’s most recognizable literary voices for peace.
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