Main Street (Version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Main Street (Version 2), credited to Sinclair Lewis, 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 Main Street (Version 2) by Sinclair Lewis. Read in English by Mark Nelson Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets a country doctor, Will Kennicott, who convinces her to marry him and move to the rural Minnesota town of Gopher Prairie. She arrives with dreams of beautifying the town, of establishing art and culture, of improving lives and promoting child welfare, but whose spirit is gradually and inexorably crushed by small-town attitudes, ignorance and bigotry. First published in 1920, Main Street is Sinclair Lewis' first major novel, and was a phenomenal success at the time. In 1930 Lewis would be the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. - Summary by Mark Nelson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Main Street (Version 2)
• Author credits: Sinclair Lewis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 40
• Listed recording duration: 18:14:23

Catalogue topics

• american classics

Opening tracks: first 24 of 40

1. 00 - Introduction — 2:03
2. 01 - Chapter 1 — 26:04
3. 02 - Chapter 2 — 17:28
4. 03 - Chapter 3 — 28:39
5. 04 - Chapter 4 — 58:07
6. 05 - Chapter 5 — 34:47
7. 06 - Chapter 6 — 31:37
8. 07 - Chapter 7 — 31:18
9. 08 - Chapter 8 — 13:53
10. 09 - Chapter 9 — 24:00
11. 10 - Chapter 10 — 35:34
12. 11 - Chapter 11 — 51:48
13. 12 - Chapter 12 — 21:14
14. 13 - Chapter 13 — 18:38
15. 14 - Chapter 14 — 36:24
16. 15 - Chapter 15 — 46:33
17. 16 - Chapter 16 — 25:06
18. 17 - Chapter 17 — 28:39
19. 18 - Chapter 18 — 31:30
20. 19 - Chapter 19 — 25:17
21. 20 - Chapter 20 — 24:36
22. 21 - Chapter 21 — 28:04
23. 22 - Chapter 22 — 28:03
24. 23 - Chapter 23 — 31:27

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