The Accursed

  • Autor: Joyce Carol Oates
  • Narrador: Grover Gardner
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 22:55:09
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Sinopse

A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned

Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at the edges of the town, corrupting and infecting its residents. Vampires and ghosts haunt the dreams of the innocent. A powerful curse besets the elite families of Princeton; their daughters begin disappearing. A young bride on the verge of the altar is seduced and abducted by a dangerously compelling man–a shape-shifting, vaguely European prince who might just be the devil, and who spreads his curse upon a richly deserving community of white Anglo-Saxon privilege. And in the Pine Barrens that border the town, a lush and terrifying underworld opens up.

When the bride's brother sets out against all odds to find her, his path will cross those of Princeton's most formidable people, from Grover Cleveland, fresh out of his second term in the White House and retired to town for a quieter life, to soon-to-be commander in chief Woodrow Wilson, president of the university and a complex individual obsessed to the point of madness with his need to retain power; from the young Socialist idealist Upton Sinclair to his charismatic comrade Jack London, and the most famous writer of the era, Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain–all plagued by "accursed" visions.

An utterly fresh work from Oates, The Accursed marks new territory for the masterful writer. Narrated with her unmistakable psychological insight, it combines beautifully transporting historical detail with chilling supernatural elements to stunning effect.

Capítulos

  • 001_Accursed

    Duração: 07min
  • 002_Prologue

    Duração: 03min
  • 003_Part 1a

    Duração: 28min
  • 004_Part 1b

    Duração: 52min
  • 005_Part 1c

    Duração: 20min
  • 006_Part 1d

    Duração: 27min
  • 007_Part 1e

    Duração: 33min
  • 008_Part 1f

    Duração: 20min
  • 009_Part 1g

    Duração: 04min
  • 010_Part 1h

    Duração: 47min
  • 011_Part 1i

    Duração: 38min
  • 012_Part 1j

    Duração: 18min
  • 013_Part 1k

    Duração: 39min
  • 014_Part 1l

    Duração: 12min
  • 015_Part 2a

    Duração: 26min
  • 016_Part 2b

    Duração: 01min
  • 017_Part 2c

    Duração: 11min
  • 018_Part 2d

    Duração: 49min
  • 019_Part 2e

    Duração: 20min
  • 020_Part 2f

    Duração: 34min
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