John Gabriel Borkman: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

John Gabriel Borkman, credited to Henrik Ibsen, 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 John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen, translated by William Archer. John Gabriel Borkman is the penultimate play of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, written in 1896. The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the imprisonment of John Gabriel who used his position as a bank manager to illegally speculate with his investors' money. The action of the play takes place eight years after Borkman's release when John Gabriel Borkman, Mrs. Borkman, and her twin sister Ella Rentheim battle over the future of young Erhart Borkman. Though John Gabriel Borkman continues the line of naturalism and social commentary that marks Ibsen's middle period, the final act suggests a new phase for the playwright, a phase brought to fruition in his final more symbolic work When We Dead Awaken. (Summary by Wikipedia) Cast John Gabriel Borkman: Bruce Pirie Mrs. Gunhild Borkman: Arielle Lipshaw Erhart Borkman: Ernst Pattynama Ella Rentheim: Elizabeth Klett Mrs. Fanny Wilton: Availle Vilhelm Foldal: Alan Mapstone Frida Foldal: Grace Garrett Mrs. Borkman's Maid: Amanda Friday Narrator: Robin King Audio edited by Elizabeth Klett

Recording facts

• Recording title: John Gabriel Borkman
• Author credits: Henrik Ibsen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 2:20:55

Catalogue topics

• audio
• drama
• ibsen
• play
• realism
• expressionism
• Victorian
• Norway

Track guide

1. 1 - Act 1 — 40:38
2. 2 - Act 2 — 47:55
3. 3 - Act 3 — 26:47
4. 4 - Act 4 — 25:35

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