A House to Let: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A House to Let, credited to Charles Dickens, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A House to Let, by Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter. Read by Ruth Golding. A House to Let is a novella originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, and in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, as a story in verse) and the whole was edited by Dickens. The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dilapidated house (the eponymous "House to Let") opposite her own, and employs the efforts of an elderly admirer, Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to discover what is happening within. (Summary by Ruth Golding and Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A House to Let
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 4:12:04

Catalogue topics

• mystery
• fiction
• short stories

Track guide

1. 1 - Over the Way — 37:31
2. 2 - The Manchester Marriage Part 1 — 31:55
3. 3 - The Manchester Marriage Part 2 — 51:44
4. 4 - Going into Society — 38:14
5. 5 - Three Evenings in the House — 21:18
6. 6 - Trottle's Report — 39:16
7. 7 - Let at Last — 32:10

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