Irene Iddesleigh: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Irene Iddesleigh, credited to Amanda McKittrick Ros, 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 Irene Iddesleigh, by Amanda McKittrick Ros. Read by volunteer readers. Amanda McKittrick Ros, a Northern Irish writer, did for the novel what William McGonagall did for poetry and Florence Foster Jenkins for the coloratura voice. She published a number of novels (all at her own expense) and in addition to being a novelist was a poet, her best known being 'Visiting Westminster Abbey' which begins Holy Moses! Take a look! Flesh decayed in every nook! Some rare bits of brain lie here, Mortal loads of beef and beer. The best account of her life available on the web is probably http://oddbooks.co.uk/amanda/life.html C.S. Lewis, J.R. Tolkien and The Inklings were admirers and held competitions to see who could read her work for the longest time whist keeping a straight face. Sadly, all her books are now out of print but command high prices on the rare books market. Irene Iddesleigh, her first book, is a romantic novel, telling the common story of an unhappy, doomed marriage. The prose style, however, is unique. (Summary by AJM)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Irene Iddesleigh
• Author credits: Amanda McKittrick Ros
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 3:55:26

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• novel
• romance
• kitsch
• bad literature

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I — 4:36
2. 02 - Chapter II — 9:09
3. 03 - Chapter III — 6:17
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 7:44
5. 05 - Chapter V — 10:59
6. 06 - Chapter VI — 12:03
7. 07 - Chapter VII — 13:24
8. 08 - Chapter VIII — 16:20
9. 09 - Chapter IX — 6:55
10. 10 - Chapter X — 13:09
11. 11 - Chapter XI — 16:41
12. 12 - Chapter XII — 23:21
13. 13 - Chapter XIII — 12:32
14. 14 - Chapter XIV — 13:56
15. 15 - Chapter XV — 15:45
16. 16 - Chapter XVI — 18:16
17. 17 - Chapter XVII — 14:01
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 14:55
19. 19 - Chapter XIX — 5:32

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