Herland: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Herland, credited to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 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 Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirely of Aryan women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared as a serial in Perkin's monthly magazine Forerunner. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Herland
• Author credits: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 5:34:22

Catalogue topics

• herland
• gilman
• science
• fiction
• philosopy
• aryan

Track guide

1. 01 - A Not Unnatural Enterprise — 25:35
2. 02 - Rash Advances — 26:50
3. 03 - A Peculiar Imprisonment — 28:14
4. 04 - Our Venture — 26:24
5. 05 - A Unique History — 30:11
6. 06 - Comparisons Are Odious — 24:28
7. 07 - Our Growing Modesty — 27:16
8. 08 - The Girls of Herland — 31:43
9. 09 - Our Relations and Theirs — 31:15
10. 10 - Their Religions and Our Marriages — 25:25
11. 11 - Our Difficulties — 29:30
12. 12 - Expelled — 27:36

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