Botchan: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Botchan, credited to Sōseki Natsume, 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 Botchan, by Sōseki Natsume. Read by Availle. Botchan is the story of a young math teacher from Tokyo whose very first assignment takes him to a middle school in the country side. His arrival there is not very lucky: The pupils are bound to test his perseverance and cheerily comment every one of his perceived missteps. In the teacher's room, he soon finds himself in the middle of an intrigue between the jovial "Porcupine" and the fat "Hubbard Squash" on one side, and the effeminate "Red Shirt" and his follower "Clown" on the other. Will Botchan choose the right side in the end? Botchan - with morality as the main theme - is one of the most popular novels in Japan. Sōseki Natsume bases the story on his own experiences as teacher in Matsuyama, his first assignment away from Tokyo. (Summary by Availle)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Botchan
• Author credits: Sōseki Natsume
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 5:07:49

Catalogue topics

• Japan
• morality
• teaching

Track guide

1. 00 A Note by the Translator — 8:20
2. 01 Chapter 01 — 27:09
3. 02 Chapter 02 — 22:39
4. 03 Chapter 03 — 24:18
5. 04 Chapter 04 — 25:55
6. 05 Chapter 05 — 24:45
7. 06 Chapter 06 — 32:12
8. 07 Chapter 07 — 31:31
9. 08 Chapter 08 — 23:07
10. 09 Chapter 09 — 27:45
11. 10 Chapter 10 — 27:03
12. 11 Chapter 11 — 33:08

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