Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, credited to Stephen Leacock, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, by Stephen Leacock. "Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich" is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town." Like that work, it is a sequence of interlocking stories set in one town, but instead of focusing on a small Canadian town in the countryside, it is set in a major American metropolis and its characters are the upper crust of society. Although currently not as well-known as the earlier book, "Arcadian Adventures" was extremely popular in North America at the time of its publication and for a while was considered the greater success. It was also translated and published by the Bolshevik government soon after the 1917 revolution and it became a bestseller in the Soviet Union. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich
• Author credits: Stephen Leacock
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 6:46:45

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• humor
• satire
• stephen
• leacock
• rich
• wealthy

Track guide

1. 01 - A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe pt 1 — 24:06
2. 02 - A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe pt 2 — 32:56
3. 03 - The Wizard of Finance — 38:17
4. 04 - The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson pt 1 — 24:19
5. 05 - The Arrested Philanthropy of Mr. Tomlinson pt 2 — 22:52
6. 06 - The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown, pt 1 — 26:05
7. 07 - The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society of Mrs. Rasselyer-Brown, pt 2 — 29:36
8. 08 - The Love Story of Mr. Peter Spillikins pt 1 — 25:57
9. 09 - The Love Story of Mr. Peter Spillikins pt 2 — 28:56
10. 10 - The Rival Churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph pt 1 — 24:58
11. 11 - The Rival Churches of St. Asaph and St. Osoph pt 2 — 27:21
12. 12 - The Ministrations of the Rev. Uttermust Dumfarthing pt 1 — 23:01
13. 13 - The Ministrations of the Rev. Uttermust Dumfarthing pt 2 — 29:00
14. 14 - The Great Fight for Clean Government, pt 1 — 23:59
15. 15 - The Great Fight for Clean Government pt 2 — 25:29

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