Jude the Obscure: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Jude the Obscure, credited to Thomas Hardy, 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 Jude The Obscure, by Thomas Hardy. Read by Tadhg Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, decides to adopt the same course for himself. Raised by his great-aunt, he studies hard with the aid of some old Latin and Greek books sent to him by Phillotson.He trains as a stonemason in order to enable him to support himself when at the university.However when he finally arrives in Christminster he soon finds that a university education is not easily comeby for one of his social standing.Meeting and falling in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead his future becomes a series of challanges to his moral, religious and social beliefs.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Jude the Obscure
• Author credits: Thomas Hardy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 53
• Listed recording duration: 14:12:23

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• hardy

Opening tracks: first 24 of 53

1. 01-Part 1,Chapter 1 — 8:31
2. 02-Part 1,Chapter 2 — 15:25
3. 03-Part 1,Chapter 3 — 16:03
4. 04-Part 1,Chapter 4 — 11:25
5. 05-Part 1,Chapter 5 — 10:14
6. 06-Part 1,Chapter 6 — 14:55
7. 07-Part 1,Chapter 7 — 17:22
8. 08-Part 1,Chapter 8 — 11:33
9. 09-Part 1,Chapter 9 — 12:51
10. 10-Part 1,Chapter 10 — 12:24
11. 11-Part 1,Chapter 11 — 14:03
12. 12-Part 2,Chapter 1 — 15:23
13. 13-Part 2,Chapter 2 — 17:54
14. 14-Part 2,Chapter 3 — 12:59
15. 15-Part 2,Chapter 4 — 17:29
16. 16-Part 2,Chapter 5 — 11:38
17. 17-Part 2,Chapter 6 — 19:39
18. 18-Part 2,Chapter 7 — 16:30
19. 19-Part 3,Chapter 1 — 16:50
20. 20-Part 3,Chapter 2 — 7:29
21. 21-Part 3,Chapter 3 — 13:04
22. 22-Part 3,Chapter 4 — 17:57
23. 23-Part 3,Chapter 5 — 10:36
24. 24-Part 3,Chapter 6 — 20:29

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