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Title: Vipers’ Tangle
Author: François Mauriac
Narrator: Geoffrey Howard
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5:43:09
Language: English
Release date: 10-14-2009
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Essays & Anthologies
Summary:
In this remarkable novel, Mauriac brings his extraordinary talent for probing the inmost core of the human character to what is arguably the most exciting theme in the world: the battle for the human soul. In all of literature there can be few more appalling studies of a soul devoured by pride and avarice, corroded by hatred.
Louis, a wretchedly unhappy multimillionaire, all but personifies evil. Toward the end of his life, seeking to uncover the cause of his unhappiness, he commits to paper his whole bitter story: his indulgent but affection-starved childhood; his first love; the trivial misunderstanding that festered until it poisoned their entire married life and the lives of their children; the old miser’s struggle to disinherit his family; and finally, the powerful climax, with divine grace vying to the very end to pierce the evil encrusting Louis’ soul.
