Jean-Christophe, Volume I: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Jean-Christophe, Volume I, credited to Romain Rolland, 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 Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland. (Translated by Gilbert Cannan.) Read in English by Joshua Paul Seeger. The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction, a composer of genius whose life is depicted from cradle to grave. He undergoes great hardships and spiritual struggles, balancing his pride in his own talents with the necessity of earning a living and taking care of those around him. Tormented by injustices against his friends, forced to flee on several occasions as a result of his brushes with authority and his own conscience, he finally finds peace in a remote corner of Switzerland before returning in triumph to Paris a decade later. Summary from Wikipedia.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Jean-Christophe, Volume I
• Author credits: Romain Rolland
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 62
• Listed recording duration: 24:55:20

Catalogue topics

• Epic
• musician
• Nobel Prize
• humanism
• heroism
• romain rolland

Opening tracks: first 24 of 62

1. 00 - Preface — 10:10
2. 01 - Dawn I Part 1 — 27:12
3. 02 - Dawn I Part 2 — 32:05
4. 03 - Dawn II Part 1 — 35:12
5. 04 - Dawn II Part 2 — 29:23
6. 05 - Dawn II Part 3 — 21:05
7. 06 - Dawn II Part 4 — 24:05
8. 07 - Dawn III Part 1 — 14:43
9. 08 - Dawn III Part 2 — 21:38
10. 09 - Dawn III Part 3 — 25:36
11. 10 - Dawn III Part 4 — 30:37
12. 11 - Morning I Part 1 — 29:38
13. 12 - Morning I Part 2 — 21:54
14. 13 - Morning I Part 3 — 18:09
15. 14 - Morning I Part 4 — 22:20
16. 15 - Morning II Part 1 — 25:40
17. 16 - Morning II Part 2 — 35:56
18. 17 - Morning III Part 1 — 21:24
19. 18 - Morning III Part 2 — 25:53
20. 19 - Morning III Part 3 — 26:59
21. 20 - Morning III Part 4 — 23:41
22. 21 - Morning III Part 5 — 24:01
23. 22 - Youth I Part 1 — 23:50
24. 23 - Youth I Part 2 — 21:03

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