Charlotte Temple: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Charlotte Temple, credited to Susanna Rowson, 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 Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson. Charlotte Temple, a cautionary tale for young women, follows the unfortunate adventures of the eponymous heroine as she is seduced by a dashing soldier, Montraville. Influenced by both her lover and an unruly teacher at her boarding school, she is persuaded to run away to America, where she is eventually abandoned by Montraville after he becomes bored, leaving her alone and pregnant. First published in England in 1791, it went on to become America's bestselling novel, only being ousted by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. (Summary by BumbleVee)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Charlotte Temple
• Author credits: Susanna Rowson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 4:41:41

Catalogue topics

• audio
• novel
• rowson

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 00 - Preface — 3:21
2. 01 - A Boarding School — 5:43
3. 02 - Domestic Concerns — 7:19
4. 03 - Unexpected Misfortunes — 9:49
5. 04 - Change Of Fortune — 10:20
6. 05 - Such Things Are — 7:25
7. 06 - An Intriguing Teacher — 8:11
8. 07 - Natural Sense Of Propriety Inherent In The Female Bosom. — 8:28
9. 08 - Domestic Pleasures Planned — 8:14
10. 09 - We Know Not What a Day May Bring Forth — 8:22
11. 10 - When We Have Excited Curiosity — 6:14
12. 11 - Conflict of Love and Duty — 6:38
13. 12 - Nature's Last, Best Gift — 8:27
14. 13 - Cruel Disappointment — 9:00
15. 14 - Maternal Sorrow — 8:08
16. 15 - Embarkation — 6:12
17. 16 - Necessary Digression — 7:24
18. 17 - A Wedding — 7:38
19. 18 - Reflections — 9:14
20. 19 - A Mistake Discovered — 7:50
21. 20 - A Chapter of Accidents — 10:38
22. 21 - Teach Me to Feel Another's Woe — 6:30
23. 22 - Sorrows of the Heart — 8:46
24. 23 - A Man May Smile, and Be a Villain — 7:15

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