Exiles: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Exiles, credited to James Joyce, 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 Exiles by James Joyce. Read in English by a full cast. Exiles is a play by James Joyce, who is principally remembered for his novels. It was rejected by W. B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major London performance was in 1970, when Harold Pinter directed it at the Mermaid Theatre. The basic premise of Exiles involves a love triangle between Richard Rowan (a Dublin writer recently returned from exile in Rome), Bertha (his common law wife) and his old friend Robert Hand (a journalist). (There are obvious parallels to be drawn with Joyce's own life – Joyce and Nora Barnacle lived, unmarried, in Trieste, during the years the fictional Rowans were living in Rome, while Robert Hand is roughly the same age of Joyce's friends Oliver St. John Gogarty and Vincent Cosgrave, and shares some characteristics with them both.) This arrangement is slightly complicated by a second love triangle, involving Rowan, Hand, and Hand's cousin Beatrice Justice. - Summary by Wikipedia Cast list: Richard Rowan: mb Bertha: Elizabeth Klett Archie: Beth Thomas Robert Hand: Bruce Pirie Beatrice Justice: Availle Brigid: Bev J. Stevens A Fishwoman: Mary Kay Narrator: Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Exiles
• Author credits: James Joyce
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 3
• Listed recording duration: 2:47:20

Track guide

1. 01 - Act 1 — 1:10:16
2. 02 - Act 2 — 53:13
3. 03 - Act 3 — 43:50

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