Anthem: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Anthem, credited to Ayn Rand, 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 Anthem by Ayn Rand. Readby Phil Chenevert This Novella by Ayn Rand was first published in England in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age characterized by irrationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (for example, the use of the word "I" is punishable by death). Rand, as a teenager living in Soviet Russia, initially conceived Anthem as a play. This is a novel upholding Rand's central principles of her philosophy and of her heroes: reason, values, volition, individualism. (Summary by Wikipedia and the Reader)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Anthem
• Author credits: Ayn Rand
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 1:18:06

Catalogue topics

• dyspotian
• rand
• sf
• socialism
• communism
• ego

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 1 — 33:40
2. 02 - Part 2 — 21:38
3. 03 - Part 3 — 5:00
4. 04 - Part 4 — 4:04
5. 05 - Part 5 — 5:32
6. 06 - Part 6 — 7:18
7. 07 - Part 7 — 13:49
8. 08 - Part 8 — 5:03
9. 09 - Part 9 — 9:15
10. 10 - Part 10 — 9:06
11. 11 - Part 11 — 6:46
12. 12 - Part 12 — 12:13

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