The Flaw in the Crystal: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Flaw in the Crystal by May Sinclair: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 13 original MP3 tracks, 2:14:07 running time and a link to listen.
The Flaw in the Crystal, credited to May Sinclair, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of The Flaw in the Crystal by May Sinclair. Read in English by Expatriate One of May Sinclair’s “uncanny” stories, this novella explores many of Sinclair’s most treasured themes: the bounds of marriage, the conflict between flesh and spirit, the complexity of human emotions in relation to other humans, the practical everyday implications of philosophical Idealism. In the story, when Agatha Verrall enters into an extra-marital affair with Rodney Lanyon, she struggles to keep the relationship on a spiritual plane without falling into the physical passion that she fears. To her astonishment, she discovers that she has an extraordinary paranormal ability to manipulate the psyches and even the physical states of the people around her. At first, she uses it in a way that seems harmless to her, coaxing the oblivious Rodney to visit her whenever she wants him. Before long, she learns that her powers have tremendous potential for good, for healing psychological disorders untouched by ordinary medicine. But the exercise of her Power leads to terrifying dangers for herself and her beneficiaries, proving that it might be beyond her ability to harness without vast harm. ( summary by Expatriate)
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Flaw in the Crystal
- Author credits: May Sinclair
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 13
- Listed recording duration: 2:14:07
Catalogue topics
- ghost stories
- women's literature
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 01 — 19:13
- 02 - Chapter 02 — 13:31
- 03 - Chapter 03 — 7:49
- 04 - Chapter 04 — 5:49
- 05 - Chapter 05 — 10:50
- 06 - Chapter 06 — 11:23
- 07 - Chapter 07 — 7:09
- 08 - Chapter 08 — 7:09
- 09 - Chapter 09 — 4:16
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 11:11
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 9:04
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 13:54
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 12:49
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