Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners, credited to Theodore Dreiser, 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 Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners, by Theodore Dreiser. Read by Chuck Williamson. Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part expose on the motion picture industry. In it, he shares his observations from his extended stay in Los Angeles, and gives us an intimate look at the seedier underside of Hollywood. (Summary by ChuckW)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners
• Author credits: Theodore Dreiser
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 1:33:59

Catalogue topics

• essay/short nonfiction
• memoirs

Track guide

1. 01 - The Struggle on the Threshold of Motion Pictures — 45:22
2. 02 - The Commonplace Tales with a Thousand Endings — 18:29
3. 03 - The Beginner's Thousand-to-One Chance — 15:02
4. 04 - The Extra's Fight to Exist — 15:08

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