Jess: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Jess by H. Rider Haggard: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 35 original MP3 tracks, 10:04:05 running time and a link to listen.
Jess, credited to H. Rider Haggard, 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 Jess by H. Rider Haggard. Read in English by Jim Locke The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are complicated love entanglements, evil Machiavellian treachery, political reflection having to do with the ethics of the colonialism of the day, for one subject for thought, and war in all its lurid and shocking and murderous detail.
Recording facts
- Recording title: Jess
- Author credits: H. Rider Haggard
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 35
- Listed recording duration: 10:04:05
Catalogue topics
- colonialism
Opening tracks: first 24 of 35
- 01 - John Has an Adventure — 12:00
- 02 - How the Sisters Came to Mooifontein — 24:25
- 03 - Mr. Frank Muller — 18:29
- 04 - Bessie Is Asked in Marriage — 16:57
- 05 - Dreams Are Foolishness — 14:49
- 06 - The Storm Breaks — 18:57
- 07 - Love's Young Dream — 15:30
- 08 - Jess Goes to Pretoria — 14:16
- 09 - Jantje's Story — 14:50
- 10 - John Has an Escape — 22:47
- 11 - On the Brink — 14:42
- 12 - Over It — 22:00
- 13 - Frank Muller Shows His Hand — 16:48
- 14 - John to the Rescue — 17:33
- 15 - A Rough Journey — 17:02
- 16 - Pretoria — 17:26
- 17 - The Twelfth of February — 20:06
- 18 - And After — 16:44
- 19 - Hans Coetzee Comes to Pretoria — 16:29
- 20 - The Great Man — 16:07
- 21 - Jess Gets a Pass — 14:12
- 22 - On the Road — 15:03
- 23 - In the Drift of the Vaal — 23:59
- 24 - The Shadow of Death — 18:47
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