Life in Mexico: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Life in Mexico, credited to Frances Calderón de la Barca, 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 Life in Mexico, by Frances Calderón de la Barca. [Read by Kehinde.] FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804, the daughter of William Inglis. After her father's death she settled in America, where she married the Spanish diplomat, Don Angel Calderon de la Barca. She accompanied him on his various appointments to Mexico, Washington, and finally to Madrid, where she was created Marquesa de Calderon de la Barca by Alfonso XII and died in 1882. The present work is the result of observations made during a two years' residence in Mexico, by a lady, whose position there made her intimately acquainted with its society, and opened to her the best sources of information in regard to whatever could interest an enlightened foreigner. It consists of letters written to the members of her own family, and, really, not intended originally--however incredible the assertion—for publication. Taken from text itself and part of preface.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Life in Mexico
• Author credits: Frances Calderón de la Barca
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 56
• Listed recording duration: 23:44:50

Catalogue topics

• history
• mexico

Opening tracks: first 24 of 56

1. 00 - Introduction and Preface — 15:15
2. 01 - Glossary — 6:11
3. 02 - Letter the First — 26:41
4. 03 - Letter the Second — 17:45
5. 04 - Letter the Third — 16:33
6. 05 - Letter the Fourth — 19:05
7. 06 - Letter the Fifth — 39:38
8. 07 - Letter the Sixth — 31:25
9. 08 - Letter the Seventh — 20:21
10. 09 - Letter the Eighth — 25:03
11. 10 - Letter the Ninth — 34:15
12. 11 - Letter the Tenth — 32:58
13. 12 - Letter the Eleventh — 24:55
14. 13 - Letter the Twelfth — 26:07
15. 14 - Letter the Thirteenth — 15:14
16. 15 - Letter the Fourteenth — 31:43
17. 16 - Letter the Fifteenth — 23:22
18. 17 - Letter the Sixteenth — 43:59
19. 18 - Letter the Eighteenth — 25:35
20. 19 - Letter the Eighteenth — 15:49
21. 20 - Letter the Nineteenth — 19:20
22. 21 - Letter the Twentieth — 27:01
23. 22 - Letter the Twenty-First — 17:55
24. 23 - Letter the Twenty-Second — 23:31

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