Enoch Arden: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Enoch Arden, credited to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 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 Enoch Arden by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Read in English by Bruce Kachuk In the poem "Enoch Arden," Tennyson's epic narrative of the enduring power of love in the face of insurmountable odds, is found a classic example of the determination of the human spirit to triumph in circumstances that address the true meaning of the power of love itself. Wanting only the very best for his impoverished wife and family, seaman Enoch Arden undertakes precarious work which leaves him marooned and presumed lost at sea. On his return home Enoch finds his family well and prospering but his wife remarried. Faced with a love for his family deeper than the oceans he sailed, Enoch must decide whether to intrude into this idyllic scene of domestic happiness or meet old age and death alone and in obscurity. - Summary by Bruce Kachuk

Recording facts

• Recording title: Enoch Arden
• Author credits: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 54:11

Catalogue topics

• poem
• poverty
• family
• shipwreck
• narrative
• pride
• loneliness
• rivalry

Track guide

1. 01 - Section 1 — 4:57
2. 02 - Section 2 — 9:04
3. 03 - Section 3 — 6:35
4. 04 - Section 4 — 8:08
5. 05 - Section 5 — 6:36
6. 06 - Section 6 — 8:04
7. 07 - Section 7 — 7:35
8. 08 - Section 8 — 3:12

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