Bleak House: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Bleak House, 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 the Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Read by Cynthia Lyons. Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens’ finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Dickens tells all of these both through the narrative of the novel’s heroine, Esther Summerson, and as an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce and the childish Harold Skimpole. The plot concerns a long-running legal dispute (Jarndyce and Jarndyce) which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. (Summary from Wikipedia) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Bleak House
• Author credits: Charles Dickens
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 67
• Listed recording duration: 43:30:19

Catalogue topics

• Bleak House
• Charles Dickens
• Esther Summerson
• Tulkinghorn
• John Jarndyce
• Harold Skimpole

Opening tracks: first 24 of 67

1. 01 - In Chancery — 26:23
2. 02 - In Fashion — 23:50
3. 03 - A Progress — 59:24
4. 04 - Telescopic Philanthropy — 34:42
5. 05 - A Morning Adventure — 43:27
6. 06 - Quite at Home — 1:07:46
7. 07 - The Ghost's Walk — 31:32
8. 08 - Covering a Multitude of Sins — 59:04
9. 09 - Signs and Tokens — 45:47
10. 10 - The Law-Writer — 34:22
11. 11 - Our Dear Brother — 45:21
12. 12 - On the Watch — 41:45
13. 13 - Esther's Narrative — 42:30
14. 14 - Deportment — 1:04:47
15. 15 - Bell Yard — 45:14
16. 16 - Tom-all-Alone's — 25:29
17. 17 - Esther's Narrative — 40:21
18. 18 - Lady Dedlock — 52:34
19. 19 - Moving on — 40:44
20. 20 - A New Lodger — 42:59
21. 21 - The Smallweed Family — 54:14
22. 22 - Mr. Bucket — 39:13
23. 23 - Esther's Narrative — 52:28
24. 24 - An Appeal Case — 50:18

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