Last Days of Pompeii: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Last Days of Pompeii, credited to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Last Days of Pompeii, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The novel uses its characters to contrast the decadent culture of first-century Rome with both older cultures and coming trends. The protagonist, Glaucus, represents the Greeks who have been subordinated by Rome, and his nemesis Arbaces the still older culture of Egypt. Olinthus is the chief representative of the nascent Christian religion, which is presented favorably but not uncritically. (Summary from Wikipedia) Details of the source text and readers may be found on the LibriVox catalogue page for this item.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Last Days of Pompeii
• Author credits: Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 56
• Listed recording duration: 16:44:36

Catalogue topics

• audio book
• fiction
• novel
• ancient history
• Vesuvius
• first century
• Rome
• Egypt

Opening tracks: first 24 of 56

1. 01 - Book 1, Chapter I — 6:32
2. 02 - Book 1, Chapter II — 26:07
3. 03 - Book 1, Chapter III — 40:32
4. 04 - Book 1, Chapter IV — 21:33
5. 05 - Book 1, Chapter V — 16:36
6. 06 - Book 1, Chapter VI — 27:35
7. 07 - Book 1, Chapter VII — 20:44
8. 08 - Book 1, Chapter VIII — 30:55
9. 09 - Book 2, Chapter I — 20:16
10. 10 - Book 2, Chapter II — 11:34
11. 11 - Book 2, Chapter III — 14:01
12. 12 - Book 2, Chapter IV — 30:12
13. 13 - Book 2, Chapter V — 14:04
14. 14 - Book 2, Chapter VI — 14:09
15. 15 - Book 2, Chapter VII — 11:32
16. 16 - Book 2, Chapter VIII — 29:20
17. 17 - Book 2, Chapter IX — 28:29
18. 18 - Book 3, Chapter I — 13:08
19. 19 - Book 3, Chapter II — 19:57
20. 20 - Book 3, Chapter III — 20:09
21. 21 - Book 3, Chapter IV — 24:44
22. 22 - Book 3, Chapter V — 14:05
23. 23 - Book 3, Chapter VI — 15:56
24. 24 - Book 3, Chapter VII — 14:06

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