The Longest Journey


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(3.7 stars; 15 reviews)

Frederick Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman, Agnes Pembroke, and her older brother, Herbert. The Pembrokes are Rickie’s only friends from home. An orphan who grew up living with cousins, he was sent to a public (boarding) school where he was shunned and bullied because of his lame foot, an inherited weakness, and frail body. Agnes, as it happens, is engaged to Gerald, now in the army, who was one of the sturdy youths who bullied Rickie at school. Rickie is not brilliant at argument, but he is intensely responsive to poetry and art, and is accepted within a circle of philosophical and intellectual fellow-students led by a brilliant but especially cynical aspiring philosopher, Stuart Ansell, who refuses, when he is introduced to her, even to acknowledge that Agnes exists. (from Wikipedia) (10 hr 27 min)

Chapters

Chapter 01 29:26 Read by Julie Pandya
Chapter 02 19:39 Read by Julie Pandya
Chapter 03 23:16 Read by Julie Pandya
Chapter 04 18:12 Read by Julie Pandya
Chapter 05 7:34 Read by Julie Pandya
Chapter 06 12:59 Read by Julie Pandya
Chapter 07 34:45 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 08 14:53 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 09 7:25 Read by Julie Pandya
Chapter 10 27:35 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 11 25:00 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 12 35:56 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 13 26:55 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 14 17:00 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 15 14:41 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 16 15:19 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 17 29:54 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 18 11:29 Read by Julie Pandya
Chapter 19 10:16 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 20 13:50 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 21 4:30 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 22 7:07 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 23 13:23 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 24 12:08 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 25 14:17 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 26 27:04 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 27 16:56 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 28 2:19 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 29 23:14 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 30 17:58 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 31 22:23 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 32 7:45 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 33 26:01 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 34 20:35 Read by Nathalie J.
Chapter 35 15:31 Read by Nathalie J.

Reviews

Great Narrator


(3 stars)

Not your typical Forster Novel. Very sad ending, and that brother in law, Mr.Pembroke, didn't get near the comeuppance I thought he had coming to him! I'd have had him married to a detestable wife, like his sister, but, I'm just like that.