Desperate Remedies: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Desperate Remedies, credited to Thomas Hardy, 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 Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy. Read in English by Philippa; Lisa Reichert; Rod Moss; shihping; Bryony Ford; Malcolm Fisher Cytherea Graye is poor, but accepts a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had not been able to marry. Cytherea in turn loves a young architect, Edward Springrove; but will Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the knowledge that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to support her sick brother drive Cytherea to accept the hand of Aeneas Manston? Will true love triumph in the end or will she be forced to live a life of misery with a man she doesn't love? ( Michele Eaton )

Recording facts

• Recording title: Desperate Remedies
• Author credits: Thomas Hardy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 15:55:46

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• romance
• love

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00 - Prefatory note — 1:55
2. 01 - The Events of Thirty Years — 36:48
3. 02 - The Events of a Fortnight — 33:35
4. 03 - The Events of Eight Days — 42:47
5. 04 - The Events of One Day — 12:50
6. 05 - The Events of One Day — 53:16
7. 06 - The Events of Twelve Hours — 56:41
8. 07 - The Events of Eighteen Days — 39:38
9. 08 - Part 1 - The Events of Eighteen Days — 29:15
10. 09 - 08 - Part 2 - The Events of Eighteen Days — 27:38
11. 10 - 09 - The Events of Ten Weeks — 50:50
12. 11 - 10 - The Events of a Day and Night — 52:36
13. 12 - 11 - The Events of Five Days — 49:43
14. 13 - 12 - The Events of Ten Months — 57:42
15. 14 - 13 - Part 1 - The Events of One Day — 38:38
16. 15 - 13 - Part 2 - The Events of One Day — 32:01
17. 16 - 13 - Part 3 - The Events of One Day — 23:36
18. 17 - 14 - The Events of Five Weeks — 24:20
19. 18 - 15 - The Events of Three Weeks — 28:37
20. 19 - 16 - The Events of One Week — 33:57
21. 20 - 17 - The Events of One Day — 23:16
22. 21 - 18 - The Events of Three Days — 46:04
23. 22 - 19 - Part 1 - The Events of a Day and Night — 42:55
24. 23 - 19 - Part 2 - The Events of a Day and Night — 42:18

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