The Tysons by May SINCLAIR read by Expatriate | Full Audio Book

The Tysons by May SINCLAIR (1863 - 1946)
Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Romance, Satire

Read by: Expatriate in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - I. Mr Nevill Tyson
00:19:00 - 02 - II. Mrs Nevill Tyson
00:27:19 - 03 - III. Mr & Mrs Nevill Tyson at Home
00:37:18 - 04 - IV. The First Stone
00:55:35 - 05 - V. The Night Watch
01:13:25 - 06 - VI. A Son Heir
01:28:20 - 07 - VII. Sir Peter's New Clothes
01:49:10 - 08 - VIII. Towards 'The Cross-Roads'
02:02:19 - 09 - IX. An Unnatural Mother
02:22:00 - 10 - X. Circumstantial Evidence
02:30:12 - 11 - XI. The Return of Odysseus
02:37:51 - 12 - XII. A Flat in Town
02:50:40 - 13 - XIII. Mrs Wilcox to the Rescue
03:01:19 - 14 - XIV. The 'Criterion'
03:15:41 - 15 - XV. Conflagration
03:30:45 - 16 - XVI. The New Life
03:42:51 - 17 - XVII. The Captain of His Soul
04:05:35 - 18 - XVIII. A Miracle
04:15:43 - 19 - XIX. Confessional
04:27:31 - 20 - XX. A Man & a Sphinx
04:34:24 - 21 - XXI. Out of the Night
04:44:48 - 22 - XXII. In the Desert
04:54:34 - 23 - XXIII. In Memoriam

Another frank May Sinclair exploration of fin de siècle English love and sex, marriage and adultery, 'The Tysons' is the story of the caddish Nevill Tyson and his beautiful but frivolous young wife Molly. Sinclair uses a different narrative voice than we hear in much of her fiction, a sort of witty Jane Austen archness as she dissects the characters of the provincial village Drayton Parva. As always, she demonstrates an intriguing mixture of Victorian prudishness and modern free-thinking, particularly in her rendering of the sexual escapades of her characters. The step-by-step fragmentation of the Tyson marriage seems predestined from the start, but the novel reveals, as Sinclair's novels always do, a passion for profound understanding of the human comedy and why we do what we do. Even though the story is told from the perspectives of mostly masculine characters, Sinclair uses their voices to shine a stark light on the many ways in which women were victimized at the time by being the chattel of the men in their lives, in particular the denigration of the female intellect in favor of the merely decorative feminine beauty which existed only for the male ego. - Summary by Expatriate