King Coal: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

King Coal, credited to Upton Sinclair, 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 King Coal, by Upton Sinclair. Read by Michelle Harris. King Coal is a book by Upton Sinclair, first published in 1917, that exposes the dirty working conditions in the coal mining industry in the western United States during the 1910s. As in an earlier work, The Jungle, Sinclair expresses his socialist viewpoints from the perspective of a single protagonist, Hal Warner, caught up in the schemes and plots of the oppressive American capitalist system. The book itself is based on the 1914-1915 Colorado coal strikes. (Summary by Wikipedia) Reader's note: In Book 4, there is no chapter numbered Section 16 in the public domain Gutenberg e-text. However, no actual text from the book appears to be missing.

Recording facts

• Recording title: King Coal
• Author credits: Upton Sinclair
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 44
• Listed recording duration: 14:25:09

Catalogue topics

• Fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 44

1. 00 - Dedication and Introduction — 7:10
2. 01 - Book 1 - The Domain of King Coal; Sections 1-2 — 17:15
3. 02 - Book 1 - The Domain of King Coal; Sections 3-5 — 18:36
4. 03 - Book 1 - The Domain of King Coal; Sections 6-8 — 18:42
5. 04 - Book 1 - The Domain of King Coal; Sections 9-11 — 18:49
6. 05 - Book 1 - The Domain of King Coal; Sections 12-14 — 20:14
7. 06 - Book 1 - The Domain of King Coal; Sections 15-17 — 19:24
8. 07 - Book 1 - The Domain of King Coal; Sections 18-20 — 17:29
9. 08 - Book 1 - The Domain of King Coal; Sections 21-23 — 19:16
10. 09 - Book 1 - The Domain of King Coal; Sections 24-26 — 17:58
11. 10 - Book 1 - The Domain of King Coal; Sections 27-29 — 17:06
12. 11 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 1-3 — 22:06
13. 12 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 4-6 — 21:26
14. 13 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 7-8 — 18:09
15. 14 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 9-11 — 19:50
16. 15 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 12-14 — 13:32
17. 16 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 15-17 — 20:03
18. 17 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 18-20 — 20:14
19. 18 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 21-23 — 18:37
20. 19 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 24-25 — 16:56
21. 20 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 26-28 — 18:32
22. 21 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 29-31 — 20:29
23. 22 - Book 2 - The Serfs of King Coal; Sections 32-34 — 23:28
24. 23 - Book 3 - The Henchmen of King Coal; Sections 1-3 — 23:44

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