Froth: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Froth, credited to Armando Palacio Valdés, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Froth by Armando Palacio Valdés. (Translated by Clara Bell.) Read in English by Phil Benson. Clementina is losing her youth in the fashionable world of late-nineteenth century Madrid and takes a younger lover. Meanwhile her father, the Duke de Requena, a rapacious businessman and one of the richest men in the city, is determined to outdo his rivals. When Clementina and her father clash over her mother's will, who will come out the winner? A biting satire with an ensemble cast of wealthy aristocratic and would-be aristocratic characters, Froth (La Espuma) was one of two novels by Armando Palacio Valdés translated for Edmund Gosse's Heinemann International Library series, which introduced English readers to European authors who would otherwise have remained unknown. This edition comes with an Introduction to the author by Gosse and a concluding Editor's Note on the series. (Summary by Philip Benson)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Froth
• Author credits: Armando Palacio Valdés
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 13:41:51

Catalogue topics

• Spain
• 19th century
• madrid
• fiction

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction by Edmund Gosse — 15:16
2. 01 - Dramatis Personae — 56:10
3. 02 - More of the Actors — 57:03
4. 03 - Salabert's Daughter I — 26:02
5. 04 - Salabert's Daughter II — 37:31
6. 05 - Salabert's Daughter III — 20:44
7. 06 - How the Duke de Requena Rewarded Virtue — 47:25
8. 07 - Precipitancy — 46:13
9. 08 - The Savage Club of Madrid — 1:10:06
10. 09 - Dinner and Cards at the Osorios' — 59:13
11. 10 - After Dinner — 23:58
12. 11 - Raimundo's Love Affairs — 46:06
13. 12 - Matters of Business — 30:45
14. 13 - The Duke's Ball — 52:10
15. 14 - An Unwelcome Guest — 30:51
16. 15 - A Pious Matinée — 36:27
17. 16 - An Excursion to Riosa — 35:40
18. 17 - Life Underground — 47:28
19. 18 - A Departing Soul — 36:36
20. 19 - A Darkened Mind — 21:20
21. 20 - A Passion Burnt Out — 19:02
22. 21 - Editor's Note by Edmund Gosse — 5:45

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