Manalive: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Manalive, credited to G. K. Chesterton, 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 Manalive by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round about this place that some poet, probably drunk, looked up astonished at all those streets gone skywards, and (thinking vaguely of glaciers and roped mountaineers) gave it the name of Swiss Cottage, which it has never been able to shake off. At some stage of those heights a terrace of tall gray houses, mostly empty and almost as desolate as the Grampians, curved round at the western end, so that the last building, a boarding establishment called "Beacon House," offered abruptly to the sunset its high, narrow and towering termination, like the prow of some deserted ship. (Summary by Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Manalive
• Author credits: G. K. Chesterton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 6:12:45

Catalogue topics

• audio books
• Chesterton
• G. K. Chesterton
• mystery

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - Part 1 - Chapter 1 — 16:53
2. 02 - Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Part 2 — 13:44
3. 03 - Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Part 1 — 14:05
4. 04 - Part 1 - Chapter 2 - Part 2 — 13:33
5. 05 - Part 1 - Chapter 3 - Part 1 — 16:14
6. 06 - Part 1 - Chapter 3 - Part 2 — 11:04
7. 07 - Part 1 - Chapter 4 - Part 1 — 14:38
8. 08 - Part 1 - Chapter 4 - Part 2 — 14:02
9. 09 - Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Part 1 — 13:04
10. 10 - Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Part 2 — 13:17
11. 11 - Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Part 3 — 14:51
12. 12 - Part 1 - Chapter 5 - Part 4 — 10:05
13. 13 - Part 2 - Chapter 1 - Part 1 — 14:32
14. 14 - Part 2 - Chapter 1 - Part 2 — 13:00
15. 15 - Part 2 - Chapter 1 - Part 3 — 14:16
16. 16 - Part 2 - Chapter 1 - Part 4 — 13:44
17. 17 - Part 2 - Chapter 2 - Part 1 — 13:29
18. 18 - Part 2 - Chapter 2 - Part 2 — 13:18
19. 19 - Part 2 - Chapter 2 - Part 3 — 19:05
20. 20 - Part 2 - Chapter 2 - Part 4 — 16:28
21. 21 - Part 2 - Chapter 3 - Part 1 — 15:26
22. 22 - Part 2 - Chapter 3 - Part 2 — 16:56
23. 23 - Part 2 - Chapter 3 - Part 3 — 14:18
24. 24 - Part 2 - Chapter 4 - Part 1 — 19:14

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