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The Breaking Point

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Nicholas Clifford

11 Hours 30 Minutes

LibriVox

January 2011

Audio Book Summary

Mary Roberts Rinehart set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and he thinks himself honor-bound to unravel it before giving himself to her in marriage. In particular, a shock of undetermined origin has wiped out his memory prior to roughly the last decade. Rinehart, who presumably had been reading, or reading about, the then popular Sigmund Freud, plays on what today is called "repressed memory," as she takes Dick into his past, and into the dangers that, unknown to him, lurk there. Is she correct about the behavior of memory? Who knows? After all, this is not a clinical treatise, but a work of fiction, one of the thrillers that made her such a popular writer of the earlier twentieth century.

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  • Anonymous

    Great story, great narrator. A real joy to read great literature.

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  • Judy L.

    It was a little hard to get into at first, but once U did, I enjoyed it very much. The narration was excellent.

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  • Anonymous

    Really good story and great narrative. Yay team!

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  • Alexina K.

    Loved it - great story and narration

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  • Anonymous

    A little bit too long and left me wanting for one last thing to be finished I really like this narrator I could listen to him reading anything

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  • Anonymous

    Loved the narration. It was clear and succinct. Sad when the story was over.

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