Helen: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Helen, credited to Maria Edgeworth, 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 Helen by Maria Edgeworth. Read in English by Terra Mendoza; add1sun; Jenny Bradshaw; Jennifer Woodside; Michele Eaton; Lynne Thompson; MaryAnn; Linda Andrus; diaz2010; John Burlinson; Kathleen Moore and Jothi Tharavant. Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education. Here is what one biographer of Maria Edgeworth has to say about Helen. "It was in 1830–when already past sixty years of age–that Miss Edgeworth set to work upon the last, and what, at the time it was written, was possibly the most successful of all her novels–namely, Helen. Any reader who will take it down from its shelf, and glance over it, will quickly perceive that it is a novel of a very much more modern type than any other by the same hand. In reading it we are aware that the eighteenth century has at last dropped out of sight, and that we are well out upon the nineteenth, not indeed as yet 'Victorian', but in a sort of midway region, on the road to that superior epoch." (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Helen
• Author credits: Maria Edgeworth
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 21:09:12

Catalogue topics

• romance
• orphan
• domestic

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 01 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 1 — 20:35
2. 02 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 2 — 12:55
3. 03 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 3 — 16:43
4. 04 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 4 — 16:31
5. 05 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 5 — 28:28
6. 06 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 6 — 37:13
7. 07 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 7 — 30:05
8. 08 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 8 — 41:56
9. 09 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 9 — 30:11
10. 10 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 10 — 29:05
11. 11 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 11 — 22:22
12. 12 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 12 — 19:30
13. 13 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 13 — 15:44
14. 14 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 14 — 26:10
15. 15 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 15 — 16:39
16. 16 - Vol. 1 - Chapter 16 — 16:53
17. 17 - Vol. 2 - Chapter 1 — 33:19
18. 18 - Vol. 2 - Chapter 2 — 36:28
19. 19 - Vol. 2 - Chapter 3 — 31:32
20. 20 - Vol. 2 - Chapter 4 — 38:30
21. 21 - Vol. 2 - Chapter 5 — 26:26
22. 22 - Vol. 2 - Chapter 6 — 26:43
23. 23 - Vol. 2 - Chapter 7 — 23:22
24. 24 - Vol. 2 - Chapter 8 — 19:00

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