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19 h 13 min in 48 tracks, published on Spotify on 13 September 2026. A free sample plays on the listing; the full audiobook is sold through Spotify.
Open on SpotifyMarriage, theatre and social novel · 1916
The Real Adventure
Rose Stanton walks away from comfort and into the theatre to discover whether love can make room for an identity of her own.
- Running time
- 19 h 13 min
- Chapters
- 48 tracks
- On Spotify since
- 13 September 2026
- Narration
- Digital voice · full cast
About the story
What happens
Rose Stanton seems to have won the fairy tale: a brilliant husband, a beautiful home and a place in Chicago society. Then she discovers that being loved is not the same as being known. To become Rodney’s equal, Rose walks away from comfort—and into the hard, dazzling world of the theatre.
Talent, scandal and desire test what a marriage can survive in Henry Kitchell Webster’s searching 1916 novel, a remarkably modern portrait of a woman determined to build an identity of her own.
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