Cecil Dreeme: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cecil Dreeme, credited to Theodore Winthrop, 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 Cecil Dreeme by Theodore Winthrop. Read in English by Thomas A. Copeland. The author of this gothic tale was one of the first Union soldiers to lose his life in the Civil War. His semi-autobiographical novel focuses on a young traveler, Robert Byng, who, returning to New York from many years abroad, occupies an absent friend’s flat. With the assistance of an old mentor, he saves the life of a reclusive painter on the floor above him. A close friendship ensues. Byng courts Emma Denman, a beautiful heiress whose intellectual sister has disappeared, presumed drowned. His mentor, who admired the lost woman and believes her to be still alive, travels to Europe to seek her. Meanwhile, Byng fraternizes with one of the other passengers on the ship on which he arrived, an accomplished older man, named Densdeth, of questionable character. The relationships among all of these individuals constitute a mystery whose solution becomes increasingly imperative. (Summary by Thomas A. Copeland)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cecil Dreeme
• Author credits: Theodore Winthrop
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 11
• Listed recording duration: 8:15:16

Catalogue topics

• Gothic
• lgbt
• cross-dressing

Track guide

1. 00 - Preface — 31:15
2. 01 - Chapters 1-4 — 51:50
3. 02 - Chapters 5-7 — 52:37
4. 03 - Chapters 8-11 — 49:15
5. 04 - Chapters 12-14 — 42:39
6. 05 - Chapters 15-16 — 43:58
7. 06 - Chapters 17-18 — 50:21
8. 07 - Chapters 19-22 — 46:39
9. 08 - Chapters 23-25 — 41:00
10. 09 - Chapters 26-28 — 46:06
11. 10 - Chapters 29-30 — 39:36

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