John Halifax, Gentleman: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

John Halifax, Gentleman, credited to Dinah Craik, 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 Halifax, Gentleman, by Dinah Craik. Read by volunteer readers. This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fletcher, an invalid son of a Quaker tanner who is presented to us in the beginning as a lonely youth. John Halifax, the first friend he ever had, is a poor orphan who is taken in by his father to help in the work which his sickly son can't constantly do. Phineas tells us in an unforgettable way how John succeeded in rising from his humble beginning and become a wealthy and successful man. But with the money come horrible troubles... In an unforgettable manner, we learn to know all the characters of the novel as if they really lived. (Summary by Stav Nisser)

Recording facts

• Recording title: John Halifax, Gentleman
• Author credits: Dinah Craik
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 40
• Listed recording duration: 19:36:58

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• social classes
• gentry
• orphans
• romance

Opening tracks: first 24 of 40

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 20:33
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 29:06
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 37:13
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 33:38
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 33:04
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 22:00
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 29:14
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 26:12
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 22:18
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 30:37
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 22:00
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 25:46
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 11:23
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 16:10
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 22:51
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 24:48
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 23:53
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 31:17
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 23:21
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 22:03
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 25:36
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 43:31
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 35:05
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 40:29

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