Caleb Williams: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Caleb Williams, credited to William Godwin, 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 Caleb Williams or Things As They Are by William Godwin. Read by Bev J. Stevens. The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, a poor but ambitious young man that Falkland hires as his personal secretary. Caleb accidentally discovers a terrible secret in his master's past. Though Caleb promises to be bound to silence, Falkland, irrationally attached (in Godwin's view) to ideas of social status and inborn virtue, cannot bear that his servant should possibly have power over him, and sets out to use various means--unfair trials, imprisonment, pursuit, to make sure that the information of which Caleb is the bearer will never be revealed. Godwin described the book as "a series of adventures of flight and pursuit; the fugitive in perpetual apprehension of being overwhelmed with the worst calamities", so that Caleb Williams can be classified as an early thriller or mystery novel. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Caleb Williams
• Author credits: William Godwin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 16:53:22

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• fiction
• mystery

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. Introduction and Prefaces — 42:09
2. Volume the First - Chapter 01 — 21:10
3. Volume the First - Chapter 02 — 18:54
4. Volume the First - Chapter 03 — 21:21
5. Volume the First - Chapter 04 — 24:45
6. Volume the First - Chapter 05 — 18:07
7. Volume the First - Chapter 06 — 28:13
8. Volume the First - Chapter 07 — 26:14
9. Volume the First - Chapter 08 — 30:26
10. Volume the First - Chapter 09 — 37:44
11. Volume the First - Chapter 10 — 30:15
12. Volume the First - Chapter 11 — 22:43
13. Volume the First - Chapter 12 — 26:16
14. Volume the Second - Chapter 1 — 21:43
15. Volume the Second - Chapter 2 — 14:04
16. Volume the Second - Chapter 3 — 9:50
17. Volume the Second - Chapter 4 — 12:41
18. Volume the Second - Chapter 5 — 17:47
19. Volume the Second - Chapter 6 — 23:58
20. Volume the Second - Chapter 7 — 23:09
21. Volume the Second - Chapter 8 — 28:24
22. Volume the Second - Chapter 9 — 23:39
23. Volume the Second - Chapter 10 — 38:43
24. Volume the Second - Chapter 11 — 22:34

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