Thelma

audiobook

Thelma

by Marie Corelli

EN·~20 hours·38 chapters

Chapters

38 total

THELMA - By - Marie Corelli

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BOOK I. - THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN.

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CHAPTER I.

18:14

CHAPTER II.

33:46

CHAPTER III.

21:57

CHAPTER IV.

27:55

CHAPTER V.

27:44

CHAPTER VI.

28:56

CHAPTER VII.

27:14

CHAPTER VIII.

21:29
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Description

A solitary aristocrat reclines on a rug of skins along a pristine Norwegian shore, watching the midnight sun blaze across the Altenfjord. The sky glows with impossible colors—cold blue, amber clouds, violet hills—while the silence feels almost holy, stirring in him a rare blend of cynic’s doubt and a poet’s reverence. His thoughts drift between modern skepticism and the lingering myths of his childhood, framing a moment where nature seems to pause the relentless march of time.

When the enigmatic Thelma appears, drawn by the same ethereal light, the watcher’s inner world is quietly upended. Their tentative connection invites him to confront the mysteries he has long dismissed, and the story unfolds as a delicate dance between fleeting beauty and deeper, unseen forces. Listeners will be carried through lush Arctic landscapes, lyrical introspection, and the tender emergence of love that challenges both reason and imagination.

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Language

en

Duration

~20 hours (1155K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Revised edition and HTML version produced by Victoria Woosley.

Release date

Mar 1, 2003

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Marie Corelli

Marie Corelli

1855–1924

A wildly popular Victorian novelist in her day, she wrote mystical, melodramatic stories that mixed romance, spirituality, and big ideas. Though critics often argued over her work, readers made her one of the era’s true bestsellers.

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