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The Family
Written by Katharine Anthony 1 audiobook with Academy Voices
Katharine Susan Anthony was an American biographer, best known for The Lambs, a study of the British writers Charles and Mary Lamb that appeared in 1945 and caused debate. More about Katharine Anthony →
Ryan Durham
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Sociology

The Family

by Katharine Anthony · read by Ryan Durham · 52 min

The American family is blamed for everything. Foreign critics say the children are rude and the wives spoiled.

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The American family is blamed for everything. Foreign critics say the children are rude and the wives spoiled. Home-grown critics say the family is falling apart. Katherine Anthony says look again. She finds a form that keeps its shape under the surface change, mixing the oldest ways of living with the newest. This essay comes from Civilization in the United States, a 1922 collection edited by Harold Stearns. It is read by Ryan Durham in fifty-two minutes.

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Details
Length
52 min
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Released
August 2026
Publisher
Academy Voices
Language
English
ISBN
9798182618601
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This edition of The Family by Katharine Anthony is narrated by Ryan Durham.

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It runs 52 min, unabridged, so you hear the complete text.

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