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LibriVox recording of The Prelude To Adventure by Hugh Walpole. Read in English by David Wales Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole novelizes the Francis Thompson poem The Hound of Heaven, about a fearful soul pursued by an insistently loving God. (One could enrich the reading of the novel by first reading the poem (“I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;… Fear wist not to evade as Love wist to pursue…. Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee,/ Save Me, save only Me?”). The psychologist Car
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- English
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- Public Domain
- Source
- Public Domain
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- April 25, 2026
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The Prelude To Adventure by Hugh Walpole
Source: Public Domain
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