Barnaby Rudge: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Barnaby Rudge, 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 Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens. Read by Mil Nicholson. One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins in 1775 with Barnaby, his Mother, and his talking Raven Grip, fleeing their home from a blackmailer, and going into hiding. Joe Willet similarly finds he must leave his home to escape his Father’s ire, leaving behind the woman he loves. Five years later these characters, and many others whose lives we have followed, find themselves caught up in the horrific Protestant rioting led by Sir George Gordon. The mob which reaches 100,000 strong, gets out of hand, and there is danger to all in the path of their destruction. Charles Dickens skillfully weaves the lives of his many loving and many wicked characters through the rioting, and shows how this uprising changes so many lives. As a side note, Edgar Allan Poe is said to have been inspired by Barnaby’s raven Grip when he wrote his famous poem,”The Raven”. (Summary by Mil Nicholson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Barnaby Rudge
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 83
• Listed recording duration: 29:00:45

Catalogue topics

• historical fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 83

1. 0 - Preface — 8:55
2. Chapter 01 — 41:23
3. Chapter 02 — 21:16
4. Chapter 03 — 19:21
5. Chapter 04 — 27:19
6. Chapter 05 — 12:29
7. Chapter 06 — 27:52
8. Chapter 07 — 15:29
9. Chapter 08 — 26:48
10. Chapter 09 — 15:12
11. Chapter 10 — 30:09
12. Chapter 11 — 14:20
13. Chapter 12 — 22:48
14. Chapter 13 — 28:16
15. Chapter 14 — 12:39
16. Chapter 15 — 26:53
17. Chapter 16 — 15:02
18. Chapter 17 — 27:13
19. Chapter 18 — 12:35
20. Chapter 19 — 26:36
21. Chapter 20 — 14:48
22. Chapter 21 — 21:47
23. Chapter 22 — 15:51
24. Chapter 23 — 26:31

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