Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave, credited to Aphra Behn, 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 Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn. Read by Elizabeth Klett Aphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English to express sympathy for African slaves. Perhaps based partly on Behn's own experiences living in Surinam, the novel tells the tragic story of a noble slave, Oroonoko, and his love Imoinda. The work was an instant success and was adapted for the stage in 1695 (and more recently by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1999). Behn's work paved the way for women writers who came after her, as Virginia Woolf noted in a Room of One's Own (1928): "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, ... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
• Author credits: Aphra Behn
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 2:40:12

Catalogue topics

• novel
• woman author
• slave

Track guide

1. 01 - Part 01 — 17:04
2. 02 - Part 02 — 14:03
3. 03 - Part 03 — 17:28
4. 04 - Part 04 — 13:40
5. 05 - Part 05 — 14:36
6. 06 - Part 06 — 19:45
7. 07 - Part 07 — 13:40
8. 08 - Part 08 — 19:15
9. 09 - Part 09 — 14:15
10. 10 - Part 10 — 16:30

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