Middlemarch (version 2): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Middlemarch (version 2), credited to George Eliot, 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 Middlemarch (version 2) by George Eliot. Read in English by Margaret Espaillat Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 1871–72 the novel appeared in serial form. The first one-volume edition was published in 1874, and attracted large sales. Subtitled "A Study of Provincial Life," the novel is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch during the period 1830–32. It has multiple plots with a large cast of characters, and in addition to its distinct though interlocking narratives it pursues a number of underlying themes, including the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism and self-interest, religion and hypocrisy, political reform, and education. The pace is leisurely, the tone is mildly didactic (with an authorial voice that occasionally bursts through the narrative), and the canvas is very broad. (Summary by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Middlemarch (version 2)
• Author credits: George Eliot
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 84
• Listed recording duration: 35:01:31

Opening tracks: first 24 of 84

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 26:30
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 20:41
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 31:02
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 19:34
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 23:34
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 28:49
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 11:17
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 14:01
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 26:16
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 29:29
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 24:40
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 44:07
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 24:17
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 21:50
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 37:19
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 35:44
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 24:20
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 30:43
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 10:34
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 32:02
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 21:23
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 37:10
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 32:10
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 30:21

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