Miss Lulu Bett: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Miss Lulu Bett, credited to Zona Gale, 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 Miss Lulu Bett, by Zona Gale. Read by Christine Dufour. Lulu Bett is a spinster, living at the turn of the 20th century essentially as a servant with her sister Ina and brother-in-law Dwight. She is, uncomplainingly, "the family beast of burden," living in the background and tending to the family's needs. It therefore surprises everyone, Lulu included, when Dwight's visiting brother Ninian proposes to her, and she accepts. The surprise is even greater when Lulu returns home alone from their homeymoon trip, with the news that Ninian was already legally married before he married her. What follows brings Lulu into conflict with the self-satisfied Dwight, forcing her to choose how she defines herself, with unexpected results. This novel is the basis of the 1921 play for which Zona Gale became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama. The original ending of the play, in which Lulu gains freedom by walking away from the security of the family, was considered so controversial that a new ending was written. In this, the book, we see the author's original intent. (Summary by Christine Dufour)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Miss Lulu Bett
• Author credits: Zona Gale
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 4:39:42

Catalogue topics

• women's fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I — 31:21
2. 02 - Chapter II — 40:26
3. 03 - Chapter III — 20:59
4. 04 - Chapter IV — 19:39
5. 05 - Chapter V — 43:56
6. 06 - Chapter VI, Part 1 — 24:19
7. 07 - Chapter VI, Part 2 — 19:48
8. 08 - Chapter VI, Part 3 — 26:35
9. 09 - Chapter VI, Part 4 — 30:55
10. 10 - Chapter VI, Part 5 — 21:50

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