Hilda Lessways: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hilda Lessways, credited to Arnold Bennett, 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:

This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story of Hilda before her marriage to Edwin Clayhanger (from the first book). Bennett explores Hilda's ambition to make a career for herself, her coming of age and her working experiences as a shorthand clerk and keeper of a lodging house in London and Brighton. He also shows her intensifying relationship with the enigmatic George Cannon that ends in her disastrous bigamous marriage and pregnancy, and finally her reconciliation with Edwin Clayhanger (Summary by Simon Evers) Narrated by Simon Evers

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hilda Lessways
• Author credits: Arnold Bennett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 11:02:27

Catalogue topics

• Victorian
• coming of age
• courtship
• audio

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. Book 1 Chapter 1 — 16:03
2. Book 1 Chapter 2 — 13:34
3. Book 1 Chapter 3 — 15:50
4. Book 1 Chapter 4 — 20:47
5. Book 1 Chapter 5 — 13:54
6. Book 1 Chapter 6 — 22:36
7. Book 1 Chapter 7 — 16:05
8. Book 1 Chapter 8 — 12:33
9. Book 1 Chapter 9 — 12:07
10. Book 1 Chapter 10 — 14:23
11. Book 1 Chapter 11 — 12:20
12. Book 1 Chapter 12 — 13:25
13. Book 1 Chapter 13 — 17:14
14. Book 1 Chapter 14 — 14:25
15. Book 2 Chapter 1 — 17:59
16. Book 2 Chapter 2 — 23:19
17. Book 2 Chapter 3 — 15:23
18. Book 2 Chapter 4 — 17:15
19. Book 2 Chapter 5 — 13:59
20. Book 2 Chapter 6 — 13:53
21. Book 2 Chapter 7 — 14:42
22. Book 3 Chapter 1 — 19:33
23. Book 3 Chapter 2 — 22:11
24. Book 3 Chapter 3 — 23:28

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