Look Homeward, Angel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 52 original MP3 tracks, 25:52:33 running time and a link to listen.
Look Homeward, Angel, credited to Thomas Wolfe, 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 Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. This ambitious novel was Wolfe’s first and was published in 1929. It is the work that he is perhaps best known for. The story is viewed as having a largely autobiographical influence. It speaks of the protagonist Eugene Gant’s desire to get an education, become a writer, find love, and generally make his way in the world by escaping the small North Carolina mountain town that he grew up in. In the book, the town is known as Altamont—based on Wolfe’s hometown of Asheville. The title is drawn from John Milton’s poem “Lycidas”: Look homeward Angel now, and melt with ruth; And, O ye Dolphins, waft the hapless youth." - Summary by Verla Viera
Recording facts
- Recording title: Look Homeward, Angel
- Author credits: Thomas Wolfe
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 52
- Listed recording duration: 25:52:33
Catalogue topics
- autobiographical fiction
- north carolina
- north carolina authors
Opening tracks: first 24 of 52
- 01 - Chapter I — 33:51
- 02 - Chapters II and III — 36:54
- 03 - Chapter IV — 29:45
- 04 - Chapter V — 40:22
- 05 - Chapter VI — 24:23
- 06 - Chapter VII — 28:46
- 07 - Chapter VIII — 35:45
- 08 - Chapter IX — 44:53
- 09 - Chapter X — 38:35
- 10 - Chapter XI — 36:13
- 11 - Chapter XII — 35:40
- 12 - Chapter XIII — 24:19
- 13 - Chapter XIV, Part 1 — 34:30
- 14 - Chapter XIV, Part 2 — 26:51
- 15 - Chapter XV — 37:21
- 16 - Chapter XVI — 31:18
- 17 - Chapter XVII, Part 1 — 23:28
- 18 - Chapter XVII, Part 2 — 26:45
- 19 - Chapter XVIII, Part 1 — 31:46
- 20 - Chapter XVIII, Part 2 — 33:15
- 21 - Chapter XIX — 19:51
- 22 - Chapter XX — 32:12
- 23 - Chapter XXI — 28:47
- 24 - Chapter XXII — 32:45
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