Kipps: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Kipps, credited to H.G. Wells, 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:

Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles begin. Wanting to marry above his social class, he has to learn how to lead a genteel life, but that is too much for him. You would think that his decision to revert to Ann, his boyhood love, would solve his problems and bring him back to earth and contentment. But even now the consequences of being wealthy are not easy to live with. A poignant tale about ambition and social class in England in the early 20th century by H.G. Wells, a master of this genre, who drew on features of his own life to provide some of the material (Summary by Anthony) Narrated by Anthony Ogus

Recording facts

• Recording title: Kipps
• Author credits: H.G. Wells
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 11:55:06

Catalogue topics

• Inheritance
• Social improvement
• Social class

Track guide

1. Chapter 01 — 50:44
2. Chapter 02 — 42:34
3. Chapter 03 — 36:49
4. Chapter 04 — 45:59
5. Chapter 05 — 16:37
6. Chapter 06 — 57:37
7. Chapter 07 — 51:37
8. Chapter 08 — 24:44
9. Chapter 09 — 41:08
10. Chapter 10 — 19:21
11. Chapter 11 — 35:57
12. Chapter 12 — 39:54
13. Chapter 13 — 1:09:13
14. Chapter 14 — 40:59
15. Chapter 15 — 16:36
16. Chapter 16 — 43:44
17. Chapter 17 — 26:50
18. Chapter 18 — 54:51

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