The victim and the worm

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United States

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. “The Victim and The Worm” by Phyllis Bottome is a quiet psychological drama layered with emotional complexity and familial tension. Set in an early 20th-century English estate shrouded in hedgerows and introspective silence, the narrative centers around an American inventor who finds himself caught between personal grief and strained domestic ties. The cover captures this tension with a solitary male figure standing pensively beneath a shadowed yew tree, his gaze turned inward while a distant house looms behind trimmed hedges. The faint presence of a woman — blurred, observing, or retreating — suggests unresolved relationships and lingering distance. Every detail evokes the gravity of memory, the ache of isolation, and the undercurrents of emotional restraint that define Bottome’s deeply human storytelling. Balanced in tone and style, this visual interpretation reflects the novel’s atmosphere of moral introspection and understated drama — a tale not of loud tragedy but of quiet reckoning, subtle rupture, and the enduring shadows of choices made and left unspoken. Duration - 4h 41m. Author - PHYLLIS BOTTOME. Narrator - Digital Voice Andrew E. Published Date - Sunday, 19 January 2025. Copyright - © 1923 Public Domain ©.

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English