The Center of the World Audiobook (Free)

Alternating between nineteenth-centuryEngland and present-day New York, this is actually the tale of renowned Uk painterJ. M. W. Turner and his group of patrons and lovers. Additionally it is the story ofHenry Leiden, a middle-aged family man using a troubled marriage and a dead-endjob, who discovers his life changed by his breakthrough of Turner’s The Center of the World, a mesmerizing and unsettlingpainting of Helen of Troy that was thought to have been lost forever.

This painting has such devastating about THE GUTS from the World eroticpower that it had been kept hidden for almost two centuries, and was even said tohave been destroyed-until Henry stumbles upon it in a secret compartment at hissummer home in the Adirondacks. Though he understands it is an object of immensevalue, the idea of parting with it really is unbearable: Henry is certainly transfixed by itsrevelation of a whole other world, one of transcendent light, pleasure, andpossibility.

Back in thenineteenth century, Turner struggles to create The Center from the Globe,his greatest painting but a painting in contrast to anything he (or other people) hasever attempted. We satisfy his patron, Lord Egremont, an aristocrat in whosepalatial home Turner talks openly about his art and his beliefs. We also meetElizabeth Spencer, Egremont’s mistress and Turner’s muse, the model for hisHelen. On the other hand, in the present, Henry can be relentlessly trailed by anunscrupulous artwork dealer identified to obtain his practical the painting at anycost. Filled up with sex, beauty, and love (of most kinds), this richly texturednovel explores the intersection between art and eroticism.