O Pioneers!: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

O Pioneers!, credited to Willa Cather, 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 O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. Read by rachelellen O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near Hanover, Nebraska, (a fictional town near Glenvil) around the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when her father dies, and she devotes her life to making the farm a viable enterprise at a time when other immigrant families are giving up and leaving the prairie. The novel also concerns two romantic relationships - one between Alexandra and family friend Carl Lindstrom, and another between Alexandra's brother Emil and the married Marie Shabata. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: O Pioneers!
• Author credits: Willa Cather
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 5:48:17

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01-01 Part 1 (The Wild Land), Chapter 1 — 18:40
2. 01-02 Part 1 (The Wild Land), Chapter 2 — 14:25
3. 01-03 Part 1 (The Wild Land), Chapter 3 — 18:24
4. 01-04 Part 1 (The Wild Land), Chapter 4 — 20:09
5. 01-05 Part 1 (The Wild Land), Chapter 5 — 9:20
6. 02-01 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 1 — 12:01
7. 02-02 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 2 — 13:42
8. 02-03 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 3 — 20:56
9. 02-04 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 4 — 12:23
10. 02-05 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 5 — 5:47
11. 02-06 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 6 — 14:27
12. 02-07 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 7 — 5:27
13. 02-08 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 8 — 12:01
14. 02-09 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 9 — 6:22
15. 02-10 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 10 — 10:22
16. 02-11 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 11 — 8:29
17. 02-12 Part 2 (Neighboring Fields), Chapter 12 — 3:41
18. 03-01 Part 3 (Winter Memories), Chapter 1 — 19:07
19. 03-02 Part 3 (Winter Memories), Chapter 2 — 5:59
20. 04-01 Part 4 (The White Mulberry Tree), Chapter 1 — 19:20
21. 04-02 Part 4 (The White Mulberry Tree), Chapter 2 — 7:55
22. 04-03 Part 4 (The White Mulberry Tree), Chapter 3 — 8:28
23. 04-04 Part 4 (The White Mulberry Tree), Chapter 4 — 5:59
24. 04-05 Part 4 (The White Mulberry Tree), Chapter 5 — 6:24

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