Hypatia: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hypatia, credited to Charles Kingsley, 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 Hypatia, by Charles Kingsley. Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 - January 23 1875) was an English divine, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire. As a novelist, his chief power lay in his descriptive faculties, which are evident in this novel as he pictures the Egyptian desert and the ancient city Alexandria. Hypatia, 1st published in 1853, is set in 5th Century A.D. Egypt. It centers upon a young orphan monk from a desert monastery who feels called to continue his religious life in the city. He discovers a sister, who is a prostitute living with a band of Goths. Other characters include Hypatia, a lady philosopher based on a historical personage; Cyril, Bishop of Alexandria; Felix, the Roman prefect; a Jewish man who has lost his faith; and an elderly Jewish woman who is like a sorceress. St. Augustine of Hippo makes a brief appearance. (Summary from Wikipedia with additions by Karen Merline)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hypatia
• Author credits: Charles Kingsley
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 52
• Listed recording duration: 18:22:13

Catalogue topics

• Historical Fiction
• Early Christians
• Egypt

Opening tracks: first 24 of 52

1. 00 - Preface — 23:20
2. 01 - Ch 01 The Laura — 31:22
3. 02 - Ch 02 The Dying World, pt 1 — 22:45
4. 03 - Ch 02 The Dying World, pt 2 — 19:53
5. 04 - Ch 03 The Goths — 27:56
6. 05 - Ch 04 Miriam, pt 1 — 17:33
7. 06 - Ch 04 Miriam, pt 2 — 16:34
8. 07 - Ch 05 A Day in Alexandria, pt 1 — 27:52
9. 08 - Ch 05 A day in Alexandria, pt 2 — 30:58
10. 09 - Ch 06 The New Diogenes — 19:39
11. 10 - Ch 07: Those by whom Offenses Come, pt 1 — 23:29
12. 11 - Ch 07: Those by whom Offenses Come, pt 2 — 18:51
13. 12 - Ch 08 The East Wind, pt 1 — 21:39
14. 13 - Ch 08, The East Wind, pt 2 — 23:42
15. 14 - Ch 09: The Snapping of the Bow — 25:32
16. 15 - Ch 10: The Interview, Pt. 1 — 15:19
17. 16 - Ch 10: The Interview, Pt. 2 — 17:15
18. 17 - Ch 11 The Laura Again — 26:20
19. 18 - Ch 12: The Bower of Acrasia — 20:41
20. 19 - Ch 13: The Bottom of the Abyss, pt 1 — 26:45
21. 20 - Ch. 13 The Bottom of the Abyss Pt 2 — 29:42
22. 21 - Ch 14: The Rocks of the Sirens — 18:24
23. 22 - Ch 15: Nephelococcugia — 23:32
24. 23 - Ch 16: Venus and Pallas, pt 1 — 19:27

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