Gargoyles: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Gargoyles, credited to Ben Hecht, 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 Gargoyles by Ben Hecht. Read by Roger Melin The author, Ben Hecht, was a prolific writer as well as a renowned screenwriter, producer, and director of films. His screenwriting skills include some of the most popular films of Hollywood's golden era, including "Gone With the Wind", "Wuthering Heights", "Spellbound", and "Scarface", to name but a few. Hecht had already established himself as a novelist and an author of short stories when "Gargoyles" was published. "Gargoyles" delves deep into the psyches of individuals and of their relationships within social classes, revealing both the darker sides and the sentimental sides. Sometimes the characteristics, values and ethics of his characters are altered over time, as they (sometimes unwittingly) look within themselves and acknowledge what they valued most, how their egos affect their decisions and ethics, yet not always understanding the reasons those values are so crucial to them. What we learn is the results of these changes, as we center on the lives of George Basine, his friends, and his family, and most importantly, the masks that each wore. (Summary by Roger Melin)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Gargoyles
• Author credits: Ben Hecht
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 12:02:00

Catalogue topics

• Hecht
• Gargoyles
• Relationships
• Family
• Adultery
• Friendship
• Ethics
• Morals

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 24:36
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 32:13
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 44:20
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 18:58
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 34:53
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 30:47
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 36:15
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 28:13
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 32:54
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 14:47
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 17:26
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 51:17
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 1:02:04
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 19:51
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 46:39
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 42:19
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 18:52
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 30:17
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 26:40
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 40:34
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 6:21
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 18:08
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 12:28
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 13:06

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