TO PLEASE HIS WIFE, a Short Story by Thomas Hardy

[@susanvictoria788]

FYI, fellow listener. If you reach the end and wonder whether the story was meant to end at that point, wonder no longer. It is the end (I found a different narration; it ends in the same spot and then announces that it's the end).

[@sondratuckfelt8672]

Thank you for that information. I was hoping for a less painful ending but at least I do not have to wonder. See? Hardy gave us a taste at the end of finally knowing the results of greed .

[@Justnik05]

Thanks

[@Lake1920]

Thank you for researching on our behalf. That sudden ending was unexpected and brusque, I must say!!

[@kathrynbrowning4644]

Thanks for the heads up. AI narrations do that. Abrupt beginnings and endings. Not performed, but simply recited. Bite-sized Audio Classics are performed. Huge difference.

[@susanvictoria788]

Bite-sized audio is great. Other great narrators with some good tales are Tony Walker's Classic Detective Stories, Classic Audiobooks with Elliot, and posts by Goodnight Nora, Goodnight, Mads. I'm just sayin'. . .a​@@kathrynbrowning4644

[@Cccc44444]

Wow, sad story with powerful lessons.

[@sangeetachadha3377]

It's the way the narrator voiced it that makes you feel like there's more. But the ending reminds me of another famous novel's ending: "All quiet on the Western front." Just matter of fact, yet so stark. Another thought that struck me was whether Jolliffe didn't intentionally go away never to return. The way the author worded the dialogue when Jolliffe offers the idea of taking his sons with him to Joanna, and then the wording used when she runs to the shore after them.

[@honesty3440]

The narrator is AI... Indeed I miss the splendid human voices.

[@sangeetachadha3377]

@honesty3440 hmm...

[@honesty3440]

@ Just ask WHO IS READING.

[@sangeetachadha3377]

@@honesty3440 ok

[@Angela-cc1hd]

@@sangeetachadha3377 Yes it would make sense that Jolliffe did actually plan to escape with his sons from her🤔

[@teresamoore5204]

So very sad , h0wever I truly loved it. Thank you very much.❤

[@Playsinvain]

Thanks for the spoiler :(

[@janetrouse5917]

Sad for Joann.

[@teddymani1241]

Thank you sir.

[@esme6381]

Joanna is too greedy and husband is a wimp.

[@Angela-cc1hd]

Correct and in that case no one wins.

[@libbyneves5457]

He made a choice.

[@Angela-cc1hd]

Very interesting and the moral of the story is Greed and Envy do not make for a happy life😮Abrupt ending was not expected?

[@ninarosangela1727]

Look I love it for better life I thank u I not shame, shame when do things inconsistent, in some how consiente I pay

[@Angela-cc1hd]

@ninarosangela1727 ???????🤔

[@libbyneves5457]

Thomas Hardy can rip out your heart.

[@leonietrezise9198]

Read very well. Thankyou 🇦🇺🦘🤗

[@helenamaria710]

AI voices are all the same, for me!