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 Charles Dickens' "Barnaby Rudge". Read by DebraLynn. A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven; a London locksmith and his family; a man apparently returned from the dead; a hangman who enjoys his job way too much; an anti-Catholic lord; a large and violent mob; and the British Militia—what do all these things have in common? All have, in some way, touched or been touched by the loveable, young, simple-minded “idiot,” Barnaby Rudge. Barnaby’s good nature makes him a joy to most who know him Unfortunately, his eagerness to please and his gullibility make him an easy prey for the unscrupulous. Can he emerge unscathed when once he gets tangled up with the wrong crowd? Once again, Dickens has managed to temper the horrific with his characteristic wit and humor, as he tells this tale based on the "no-popery" or Gordon riots of 1780. (Note: If the bird in this story seems familiar, it may be because he was the inspiration for Edgar Allen Poe’s poem, “The Raven.”) (Summary by Debra Lynn)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Barnaby Rudge
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 83
• Listed recording duration: 24:17:09

Catalogue topics

• audio books
• Victorian novel
• novel
• Gordon Riots

Opening tracks: first 24 of 83

1. Preface — 7:50
2. Chapter 01 — 33:48
3. Chapter 02 — 18:13
4. Chapter 03 — 16:07
5. Chapter 04 — 23:24
6. Chapter 05 — 10:06
7. Chapter 06 — 22:12
8. Chapter 07 — 13:05
9. Chapter 08 — 23:37
10. Chapter 09 — 13:01
11. Chapter 10 — 23:30
12. Chapter 11 — 11:26
13. Chapter 12 — 18:42
14. Chapter 13 — 23:37
15. Chapter 14 — 10:55
16. Chapter 15 — 21:54
17. Chapter 16 — 14:13
18. Chapter 17 — 22:49
19. Chapter 18 — 11:48
20. Chapter 19 — 23:54
21. Chapter 20 — 13:29
22. Chapter 21 — 19:20
23. Chapter 22 — 14:20
24. Chapter 23 — 22:08

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