Captives - Free Audiobook
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Captives
TO ARNOLD BENNETT WITH DEEP AFFECTION
TO
ARNOLD BENNETT
WITH DEEP AFFECTION
"I confess that I do not see why the very existence of an invisible world may not in part depend on the personal response which any of us may make to the religious appeal. God Himself, in short, may draw vital strength and increase of very being from our fidelity. For my own part I do not know what the sweat and blood and tragedy of this life mean, if they mean anything short of this. If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight—as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithlessness, are needed to redeem; and first of all to redeem our own hearts from atheisms and fears ..."
WILLIAM JAMES.
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A story of alienation from the society which holds one captive, told from the standpoint of a young woman whose life is suddenly disrupted, leading her into a stumbling progression through constrained social cliques and frustrated romantic attachments, haunted by religious shadows. (Summary by Peter Tucker)
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