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The Nature of a Crime by Joseph Conrad ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
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Show Notes
The Nature of a Crime by Joseph Conrad audiobook.
Genre: drama
In this psychologically charged, letter-driven novella by Joseph Conrad (in collaboration with Ford Madox Ford), an unnamed lawyer sets down a private record that is part love letter, part confession, and part argument with his own conscience. Over a handful of tense days in early 20th century England, he writes to a woman he desires but cannot openly claim, even as another, darker secret tightens around him: he has abused a position of trust, gambling away money placed under his care through his power of attorney for a young man, Edward Burden, whose future depends on the very funds now at risk. With indictment and disgrace looming, the narrator dissects his choices with ruthless intelligence and startling self-justification, weighing honor against survival, freedom against imprisonment, and remorse against pride. As his correspondence grows more urgent, the book becomes a close study of how a respectable life can fracture from the inside, and how a single hidden act can warp love into obsession and duty into betrayal. Is the real crime the deed itself, or the evasions that follow?
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:10:59) Chapter 01
(00:33:48) Chapter 02
(00:43:11) Chapter 03
(00:48:13) Chapter 04
(01:03:49) Chapter 05
(01:20:09) Chapter 06
(01:36:21) Chapter 07
(01:46:44) Chapter 08
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