Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, credited to Robert Smith Surtees, 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 Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees. Read in English by Kevin Green Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a delightful comic satire of the fox-hunting fraternity of the mid 19th Century. Surtees takes great pleasure in creating comic personalities and dialogue and resembles the later Pickwick Papers of Dickens, whose style may well have been influenced by Surtees. The story follows the eponymous Soapy Sponge, a Victorian freeloader and confidence trickster, who manages to work his way around the gentrified houses of southern England, fox-hunting as he goes. - Summary by Kevin Green

Recording facts

• Recording title: Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
• Author credits: Robert Smith Surtees
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 71
• Combined MP3 track duration: 20:14:53

Catalogue topics

• humor
• travel
• fox hunting

Opening tracks: first 24 of 71

1. 00 - Preface — 1:12
2. 01 - Chapter 1 - Our Hero — 12:37
3. 02 - Chapter 2 - Mr Benjamin Buckram — 13:27
4. 03 - Chapter 3 - Peter Leather — 20:19
5. 04 - Chapter 4 - Laverick Wells — 9:41
6. 05 - Chapter 5 - Mr. Waffles — 19:30
7. 06 - Chapter 6 - Laverick Wells — 11:25
8. 07 - Chapter 7 - Our Hero Arrives at Laverick Wells — 15:37
9. 08 - Chapter 8 - Old Tom Towler — 10:15
10. 09 - Chapter 9 - The Meet, The Find and The Finish — 39:35
11. 10 - Chapter 10 - The Feeler — 9:56
12. 11 - Chapter 11 - The Deal, and the Disaster — 10:50
13. 12 - Chapter 12 - An Old Friend — 20:58
14. 13 - Chapter 13 - A New Scheme — 15:34
15. 14 - Chapter 14 - Jawleyford Court — 11:54
16. 15 - Chapter 15 - The Jawleyford Establishment — 15:25
17. 16 - Chapter 16 - The Dinner — 11:19
18. 17 - Chapter 17 - The Tea — 5:50
19. 18 - Chapter 18 - The Evening's Reflections — 8:56
20. 19 - Chapter 19 - The Wet Day — 24:08
21. 20 - Chapter 20 - The F.H.H. — 19:16
22. 21 - Chapter 21 - A Country Dinner Party — 27:49
23. 22 - Chapter 22 - The F.H.H. Again — 21:45
24. 23 - Chapter 23 - The Great Run — 29:44

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